{"id":60188,"date":"2015-06-04T07:28:43","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T11:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=60188"},"modified":"2015-06-03T13:57:19","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T17:57:19","slug":"three-return-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60188","title":{"rendered":"Three Return Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

From World War II<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 PVT Arthur H. Kelder<\/strong>, Medical Corps, 2nd General Hospital, US Army, was lost on 7 May 1942 in the Philippines. He was accounted for on 26 May 2015.<\/p>\n

\u2022 2nd Lt. Robert W. Ward<\/strong>, 387th Bombardment Group, 9th Air Force, US Army Air Forces, was lost on 23 December 1944 in Germany. He was accounted for on 7 May 2015.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022 PFC Charlie Wilcher Jr.<\/strong>, Company A, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division, US Army, was lost on 30 November 1950 in North Korea. He was accounted for on 7 May 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

TAH reader HMCS(FMF) noted in comments elsewhere that DPAA’s web site now has what appears to be a decent “Contact Us” page<\/a>. The page doesn’t have instructions concerning who can and cannot 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.\u00a0 If you think you might possibly qualify, please contact those POCs for further information.<\/p>\n

If it turns out you qualify to submit a mtDNA sample, please arrange to submit one. By doing that you just might help identify the remains of a US service member who’s been repatriated but not yet been identified – as well as a relative of yours, however distant. 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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