{"id":52509,"date":"2014-06-28T08:28:34","date_gmt":"2014-06-28T12:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=52509"},"modified":"2014-06-28T10:03:19","modified_gmt":"2014-06-28T14:03:19","slug":"another-comes-home-while-another-is-buried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=52509","title":{"rendered":"Another Comes Home, While Another is Buried"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DPMO has announced the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dtic.mil\/dpmo\/accounted_for\/\">identification of another US MIA<\/a> from World War II.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pfc. Randolph Allen<\/strong>, Company F, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marine Division, USMC, was lost 20 November 1943 on Tarawa. He was accounted for 17 June 2014. He will be buried with full military honors 28 July 2014 in Arlington National Cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome home, my elder brother-in-arms. Rest in peace.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, DPMO has announced funeral arrangements for <strong>CPL Cletus R. Lies<\/strong>, who was lost 28 November 1950 near the Chosin Reservoir. CPL Lies will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dtic.mil\/dpmo\/news\/news_releases\/2014\/documents\/release_lies.pdf\">buried 3 July 2014 in New Rockford, ND<\/a>. The identification of CPL Lies\u2019 remains was announced by DPMO in December, 2013, and was also previously <a href=\"..\/?p=38931\">noted here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>. . . <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Over 73,600 US personnel remain unaccounted for from World War II; over 7,890 US personnel remain unaccounted for from the Korean War; and over 1,640 remain unaccounted for in Southeast Asia (SEA).\u00a0 Comparison of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from recovered remains against mtDNA from a matrilineal descendant can assist in providing a positive ID for those recovered remains.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, JPAC has recently reorganized their web site and no longer seems to provide by-name lists of the MIAs for whom there is a need for mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA).\u00a0 So if you have a relative that is still MIA from World War II, Korea, or SEA &#8211; please consider <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpac.pacom.mil\/Portals\/64\/Documents\/Fact%20Sheets\/DNA%20Role%20of%20Human%20Identification.pdf\">reading this JPAC fact sheet<\/a><\/strong> to see if you qualify to submit a mtDNA sample.<\/p>\n<p>If you qualify to submit a mtDNA sample and have a relative from World War II, Korea, or SEA who is still MIA, please contact JPAC (there is an 866 number on the flier linked above) and arrange to submit a sample. By 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 while serving this nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DPMO has announced the identification of another US MIA from World War II. Pfc. Randolph Allen, &hellip; <a title=\"Another Comes Home, While Another is Buried\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=52509\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Another Comes Home, While Another is Buried<\/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-52509","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\/52509","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=52509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}