{"id":59763,"date":"2015-05-13T07:29:38","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T11:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=59763"},"modified":"2015-05-12T05:35:19","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T09:35:19","slug":"another-is-home-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59763","title":{"rendered":"Another Is Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In January, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpaa.mil\/OurMissing\/RecentlyAccountedFor.aspx\">DPAA identified and formally accounted for<\/a> the following US soldier from World War II. Regrettably, I appear to have missed the original announcement of his change in status \u2013 hence this delayed article. My apologies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u2022 <strong>Flight Officer Arthur J. LeFavre<\/strong>, 599th Bombardment Squadron, 397th Bombardment Group, US Army Air Forces, was lost on 23 December 1944 in Germany. He was accounted for on 22 January 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome home, my elder brother-in-arms. Our apologies that it took so long.<\/p>\n<p>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 making a positive ID for unidentified remains that have already been recovered, or which may be recovered in the future.<\/p>\n<p>While I\u2019ve not yet found instructions for submitting a mtDNA sample on DPAA\u2019s web site, their site now has what appears to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpaa.mil\/Families\/ContactInformation.aspx\">a decent &#8220;Contact Us&#8221; page<\/a>. The page doesn&#8217;t have guidance concerning who may 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&#8217;re interested.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s been repatriated but not yet been identified. Or you may help to identify remains yet to be recovered in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Everybody deserves a proper burial. That\u2019s especially true for those who gave their all while serving this nation.<\/p>\n<p>Again: my apologies for the belated notice.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>(<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Author\u2019s Note<\/span>: the rank above is indeed correct. From 1942-1945, the US Army Air Forces had warrant officer pilots, navigators, flight engineers, and bombardiers. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flight_officer#United_States_Army\">\u201cFlight Officer\u201d<\/a> was the proper title for that rank; it was equivalent to today\u2019s W1.)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In January, DPAA identified and formally accounted for the following US soldier from World War II. &hellip; <a title=\"Another Is Home\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59763\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Another Is 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-59763","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\/59763","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=59763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}