{"id":59561,"date":"2015-04-29T10:17:49","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T14:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=59561"},"modified":"2015-05-12T03:35:35","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T07:35:35","slug":"eight-return-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59561","title":{"rendered":"Eight Return Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

DPAA has identified and accounted for the following eight formerly-missing US military personnel.<\/a><\/p>\n

From Korea<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Sgt John McLaughlin<\/strong>, D Company, 32nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, USMC, was lost on 2 December 1950 in North Korea. He was accounted for on 8 April 2015.<\/p>\n

\u2022 CPL Elmer P. Richard<\/strong>, D Battery, 15th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion, 31st Regimental Combat Team, US Army, was lost on 2 December 1950 in North Korea. He was accounted for on 11 April 2015.<\/p>\n

\u2022 PFC Kenneth P. Darden<\/strong>, A Battery, 15th Field Artillery, 2nd Infantry Division , US Army, was lost on 13 February 1951 in North Korea. He was accounted for on 23 March 2015.<\/p>\n

\u2022 CPL Ben L. Brown <\/strong>, I Company, 3rd Battalion, 38th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division, US Army, was lost on 21 February 1951 in North Korea. He was accounted for on 10 April 2015.<\/p>\n

\u2022 PFC Eugene L. Erickson<\/strong>, B Company, 1st Battalion, 38th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division, US Army, was lost on 18 May 1951 in North Korea. He was accounted for on 13 April 2015.<\/p>\n

From Southeast Asia<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 LTJG Neil B. Taylor<\/strong>, Attack Squadron 192, US Navy, was lost on 14 September 1965 in Vietnam. He was accounted for on 4 February 2015.<\/p>\n

\u2022 LT Richard C. Clark<\/strong><\/a>, Fighter Squadron 151, US Navy, was lost on 24 October 1967 in Vietnam. He was accounted for on 2 February 2015.<\/p>\n

\u2022 MAJ Dale W. Richardson<\/strong>, 2nd Battalion, 34th Armor Regiment, 25th Infantry Division, US Army, was lost on 2 May 1970 in Vietnam. He was accounted for on 2 April 2015.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re no longer missing, my elder brothers-in-arms. Our apologies that it took so long.<\/p>\n

You’re home now; 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 making a positive ID for unidentified remains that have already been recovered, or which may be recovered in the future.<\/p>\n

Regrettably, I\u2019ve not yet found current POC information or instructions for submitting a mtDNA sample on DPAA\u2019s web site (what I’ve found there seems to be outdated). When I do find the current instructions, I\u2019ll post a link to that information. (See Author’s Note below, added 12 May 2015.)<\/i><\/p>\n

In the interim: if you have a missing relative from World War II, Korea, or SEA, please consider contacting DPAA and see if you qualify to submit a mtDNA sample. If you qualify, please consider submitting such a sample. By doing so you just might help identify the remains of a US service member who’s been repatriated but not yet been identified. Or you may help to identify remains to be recovered in the future.<\/p>\n

Everybody deserves a proper burial. That\u2019s especially true for those who gave their all while serving this nation.<\/p>\n

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(Author’s Note<\/span>:\u00a0 TAH reader HMCS(FMF) noted in comments to another article that DPAA’s web site now has what appears to be a decent “Contact Us” page<\/a>.\u00a0 The page doesn’t have instructions concerning who can submit a mtDNA sample or how to submit one, but the POCs listed there may be able to point you in the correct direction if you’re interested.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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