{"id":57214,"date":"2014-12-20T07:30:58","date_gmt":"2014-12-20T12:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57214"},"modified":"2014-12-20T10:12:41","modified_gmt":"2014-12-20T15:12:41","slug":"six-more-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57214","title":{"rendered":"Seven Return"},"content":{"rendered":"

DPMO has announced the identification of\u00a0an additional seven US MIAs from the Korean War<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 SFC Earl E. Hilgenberg<\/strong>, E Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, US Army, was lost 2 November 1950 in North Korea. He was accounted for 17 November 2014.
\n\u2022 PFC Anthony Massey, Jr.<\/strong>, C Company, 24th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division, US Army, was lost 28 Nov 1950 in North Korea. He was accounted for 5 December 2014.
\n\u2022 SGT Gilberto L. Sanchez<\/strong>, Medical Company, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 31st Regimental Combat Team, US Army, was lost 2 December 1950 in North Korea. He was accounted for 25 November 2014.
\n\u2022 CPL Francis D. Knobel<\/strong>, Headquarters Company, 3rd Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division, US Army, was lost 12 December 1950 in North Korea. He was accounted for 10 December 2014.
\n\u2022 SFC Class Gordon L. Hannah<\/strong>, K Company, 3rd Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division, US Army, was lost 28 January 1951 in North Korea. He was accounted for 3 December 2014.
\n\u2022 CPL Abie L. Apodaca<\/strong>, Heavy Mortar Company, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division, US Army, was lost 14 February 1951,in North Korea. He was accounted for 13 November 2014.
\n\u2022 CPL Donald A. Therkelsen<\/strong>, Medical Company, 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division, US Army, was lost 17 July 1953 in North Korea. He was accounted for 2 December 2014.<\/p>\n

All of these individuals will be buried with full military honors.\u00a0 Information on funeral arrangements is not currently available.<\/p>\n

Additionally, another fallen soldier from Korea \u2013 PFC Anthony R. La Rossa, 18, formerly of Brooklyn, NY \u2013 was interred earlier this week in Farmingdale, NY<\/a>.\u00a0 PFC La Rossa\u2019s recovery and identification was previously announced here at TAH.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re home now, my elder brothers-in-arms. Rest in peace.<\/p>\n

. . .<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

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\u00a0reading this JPAC fact sheet<\/a>\u00a0to see if you qualify to submit a mtDNA sample.<\/p>\n

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

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":"

DPMO has announced the identification of\u00a0an additional seven US MIAs from the Korean War. \u2022 SFC … Seven Return<\/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-57214","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\/57214","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=57214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}