{"id":41843,"date":"2014-04-02T11:30:28","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T15:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=41843"},"modified":"2014-04-02T14:01:07","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T18:01:07","slug":"eight-more-are-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=41843","title":{"rendered":"Eight More Are Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DPMO has announced <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dtic.mil\/dpmo\/accounted_for\/\">the identification of one US MIA from World War II,\u00a0 six US MIAs from from Korea, and one US MIA from Southeast Asia (SEA)<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>PFC. William T. Carneal<\/b>, Company D, 1st Battalion, 105th Infantry Regiment, US Army, was lost on 7 July 1944, in Saipan. \u00a0He was accounted for on 21 January 2014. He will be buried with full military honors on 25 April 2014 in Paducah, KY.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dtic.mil\/dpmo\/news\/news_releases\/2014\/documents\/release_day.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><b>CPL William F. Day<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span>, Company C, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 31st Regimental Combat Team, US Army, was lost on 2 December 1950 in North Korea. He was accounted for on 6 March 2014. \u00a0He will be buried with full military honors 5 April 2014 in La Center, KY.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dtic.mil\/dpmo\/news\/news_releases\/2014\/documents\/release_durfee.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><b>PFC Donald C. Durfee<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span>, Company M, 31st Infantry Regiment, 31st Regimental Combat Team (RCT), US Army, was lost on 2 December 1950 in North Korea. He was accounted for on 30 January 2014. \u00a0He will be buried on 7 March 2014 in Rittman, OH.<\/li>\n<li><b>SFC John C. Keller<\/b>, Company K, 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, US Army, was lost on 2 November 1950 in North Korea. He was accounted for on 29 January 2014. \u00a0He will be buried with full military honors during May 2014 in Florida National Cemetery.<\/li>\n<li><b>PFC Arthur Richardson<\/b>, Company A, 1st Battalion, 19th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division, US Army, was lost on 1 January 1951 in South Korea. He was accounted for on 21 March 2014. \u00a0He will be buried with full military honors; date and place were not announced.<\/li>\n<li><b>SGT Paul M. Gordon<\/b>, Company H, 2nd Battalion. 38th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division, US Army, was lost on 7 January 1951 in South Korea. \u00a0He was accounted for on 12 February 2014. He will be buried with full military honors on 20 June 2014 in Williamstown, KY.<\/li>\n<li><b>Cpl William S. Blasdel<\/b>, Company H, 3rd Battalion, 11th Regiment, 1st Marine Division, USMC, was lost 28 October 1953 in North Korea. He was accounted for 10 March 2014. He will be buried with full military honors this spring in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific; date was not announced. \u00a0<i>(Note:\u00a0 DPMO gives Cpl Blasdel\u2019s date of loss as 28 October 1953.\u00a0 Since that date is well after the armistice ending hostilities in Korea, I believe the DPMO-provided date of loss to be in error.\u00a0 Other sources give Cpl Blasdel&#8217;s date of loss as 28 November 1950.)<\/i><\/li>\n<li><b>Capt. Douglas D. Ferguson<\/b>, 555th Tactical Fighter Squadron, USAF, was lost on 30 December 1969 in Laos. He was accounted for on 5 March 2014. He will be buried with full military honors on 2 May 2014 in Lakewood, WA.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Welcome home, my elder brothers-in-arms.\u00a0 Rest now in peace.<\/p>\n<p><b>. . .<\/b><\/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 one US MIA from World War II,\u00a0 six US MIAs &hellip; <a title=\"Eight More Are Home\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=41843\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Eight More Are 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-41843","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\/41843","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=41843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}