{"id":37199,"date":"2013-08-23T06:00:38","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T10:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37199"},"modified":"2013-08-22T09:02:22","modified_gmt":"2013-08-22T13:02:22","slug":"another-two-come-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37199","title":{"rendered":"Another Two Come Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DPMO has announced the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dtic.mil\/dpmo\/accounted_for\/\"><b>identification of two US MIAs from World War II<\/b>.<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><\/strong><strong>Capt. Henry S. White<\/strong> and <strong>SSgt. Thomas L. Meek<\/strong>, USMC, were lost on 21 July 1943 when their SBD-4 Dauntless dive-bomber crashed on Mavea Island, Republic of Vanuatu. They were accounted for on July 3, 2013. They will be buried as a group with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My apologies for the delayed article; I apparently missed this announcement originally.\u00a0\u00a0<em>Mea culpa<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome home, my elder brothers-in-arms.\u00a0 Rest now in well-earned peace.<\/p>\n<p><b>. . .<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Over 73,600 US personnel remain unaccounted for from World War II; over 7,900 US personnel remain unaccounted for from the Korean War; and over 1,640 remain unaccounted for in Southeast Asia.\u00a0 If you are a relative of one of the individuals listed <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpac.pacom.mil\/downloads\/FRS\/FRS_WorldWarII.pdf\">here (World War II \u2013 critical need)<\/a><\/b>, listed <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpac.pacom.mil\/downloads\/FRS\/FRS_Korea.pdf\">here (Korea)<\/a><\/b>, or listed <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpac.pacom.mil\/downloads\/FRS\/FRS_SEA.pdf\">here (Southeast Asia)<\/a><\/b> \u2013 please consider <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpac.pacom.mil\/index.php?page=frs&amp;exempt=3&amp;ind=4\">reading this link<\/a><\/b> to see if you qualify to submit a mtDNA sample.<\/p>\n<p>If you qualify to submit a mtDNA sample, please submit one.\u00a0 \u00a0By submitting a mtDNA sample, you may be able to help identify US remains that have been recovered and repatriated but not yet positively identified.<\/p>\n<p>Everybody deserves a proper burial.\u00a0 That\u2019s especially true for those who gave their all in the service of this nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DPMO has announced the identification of two US MIAs from World War II. Capt. Henry S. &hellip; <a title=\"Another Two Come Home\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37199\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Another Two Come Home<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[210],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-no-longer-missing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}