{"id":56786,"date":"2014-12-02T09:21:23","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T14:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=56786"},"modified":"2014-12-02T09:21:23","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T14:21:23","slug":"three-more-come-home-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56786","title":{"rendered":"Three More Come Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During October, DPMO announced the identification of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dtic.mil\/dpmo\/accounted_for\/\">one US MIA from World War II, one US MIA from the Korean War, and one US MIA from Southeast Asia<\/a>. Regrettably, I missed these announcements at the time they occurred.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u2022 <strong>Capt Richard W. Vincent<\/strong>, D Company, 2nd Battalion, 18th Marines, 2nd Marine Division, USMC, was lost 20 November 1943 on Tarawa. He was accounted for 21 October 2014.<br \/>\n\u2022 <strong>PFC Anthony R. La Rossa<\/strong>, L Company, 3rd Battalion, 38th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division, US Army, was lost 13 February 1951 in North Korea. He was accounted for Oct. 20, 2014.<br \/>\n\u2022 <strong>Capt Richard L. Whitesides<\/strong>, 19th Tactical Air Support Squadron, 34th Tactical Group, 13th Air Force, USAF, was lost 26 March 1964 in Vietnam. He was accounted for 21 October 2014.<\/p>\n<p>All of these belatedly returned brothers-in-arms will be buried with full military honors. Information concerning the dates and locations of their interments is not readily available.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome home, my elder brothers-in-arms. Rest in peace.<\/p>\n<p><strong>. . .<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Over 73,000 US personnel remain unaccounted for from World War II; over 7,800 US personnel remain unaccounted for from the Korean War; and over 1,600 remain unaccounted for in Southeast Asia (SEA). 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; they no longer seems to provide by-name lists of the MIAs for whom there is a need for mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) samples to assist in possible identification of remains. So if you have a relative that is still MIA from World War II, Korea, or SEA \u2013 please consider <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpac.pacom.mil\/Portals\/64\/Documents\/Fact%20Sheets\/DNA%20Role%20of%20Human%20Identification.pdf\"><strong>reading this JPAC fact sheet<\/strong><\/a> 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. 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. That\u2019s especially true for those who gave their all while serving this nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During October, DPMO announced the identification of one US MIA from World War II, one US &hellip; <a title=\"Three More Come Home\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56786\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Three More 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-56786","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\/56786","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=56786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}