{"id":53566,"date":"2014-07-09T08:48:52","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T12:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=53566"},"modified":"2014-07-09T08:48:52","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T12:48:52","slug":"two-more-are-home-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=53566","title":{"rendered":"Two More Are Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DPMO has announced the identification of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dtic.mil\/dpmo\/accounted_for\/\">one US MIA from World War II and another US MIA from the Korean War.<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>SSgt. Gerald V. Atkinson<\/strong>, 358th Bomb Squadron, 303rd Bomb Group, Eighth Air Force, US Army Air Forces was lost 10 April 1945 north of Berlin. He was accounted for 20 June 2014. SSgt. Atkinson will be buried with full military honors 16 August 2014 in Chattahoochee, FL.<\/li>\n<li><strong>MSG Lawrence O. Jock<\/strong>, A Battery, 955th Field Artillery, 8th US Army, was lost 14 July 1953 in North Korea. He was accounted for 25 June 2014 \u2013 appropriately, also the 64th anniversary of the beginning of the Korean War. MSG Jock will be buried with full military honors 1 August 2014 in Malone, NY.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Welcome home, my elder brothers-in-arms.\u00a0 Rest in peace.<\/p>\n<p><strong>. . . <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Over 73,600 US personnel remain unaccounted for from World War II; over 7,890 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 \u2013 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 see if they already have a mtDNA sample for your missing relative.\u00a0 If not, please 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 one US MIA from World War II and another US &hellip; <a title=\"Two More Are Home\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=53566\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Two 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-53566","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\/53566","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=53566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}