{"id":38897,"date":"2013-12-18T05:32:19","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T10:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38897"},"modified":"2013-12-17T13:36:11","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T18:36:11","slug":"two-fewer-mias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38897","title":{"rendered":"Two Fewer MIAs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DPMO has announced <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dtic.mil\/dpmo\/accounted_for\/\">the identification of two US MIA from Korea<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>SFC Joseph E. Gantt<\/b>, C Battery, 503rd Field Artillery, 2nd Infantry Division, US Army, was lost 30 November 1950 in the vicinity of Somindong, North Korea. He was accounted for on 26 November 2013. He will be buried will full military honors in Inglewood, CA, on 28 December 2013.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Cpl. William A. Newton<\/b>, Headquarters Service Company, 2nd Engineer Combat Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division, US Army, was lost 30 November 1950, in North Korea. He was accounted for on 20 November 2013. He will be buried with full military honors in Kountze, TX, on 20 December 2013.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Welcome home, my elder brothers-in-arms. Rest in peace.<\/p>\n<p><strong>. . .<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Over 73,600 US personnel remain unaccounted for from World War II; over 7,800 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 MIA from Korea. SFC Joseph E. Gantt, C &hellip; <a title=\"Two Fewer MIAs\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38897\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Two Fewer MIAs<\/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-38897","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\/38897","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=38897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}