{"id":61638,"date":"2015-09-01T07:25:12","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T11:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=61638"},"modified":"2015-09-01T05:13:47","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T09:13:47","slug":"another-three-are-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61638","title":{"rendered":"Another Two Are Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpaa.mil\/OurMissing\/RecentlyAccountedFor.aspx\"><em>DPAA has identified and accounted for the following formerly-missing US military personnel<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">From Korea<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u2022 <strong> SGT Christopher Y. Vars<\/strong>, E Company, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division, US Army, was lost on 11\/29\/1950 in North Korea. He was accounted for on 8\/13\/2015.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">From Vietnam<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u2022 <strong>1st Lt Stanley G. Johnson<\/strong>, Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 364, Marine Aircraft Group 36, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, USMC, was lost on 12\/3\/1965 in Vietnam. He was accounted for on 8\/5\/2015.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re no longer missing, my elder brothers-in-arms. Our apologies that it took so long.<\/p>\n<p>Rest in peace now. You&#8217;re home.<\/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>TAH reader HMCS(FMF) noted in comments elsewhere that DPAA&#8217;s web site now has what appears to be <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpaa.mil\/Families\/ContactInformation.aspx\">a decent &#8220;Contact Us&#8221; page<\/a><\/em>. The page doesn&#8217;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&#8217;re interested. If you think you might possibly qualify, please contact those POCs for further information.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s been repatriated but not yet been identified &#8211; as well as a relative of yours, however distant. Or you may help to identify remains 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DPAA has identified and accounted for the following formerly-missing US military personnel. From Korea \u2022 SGT &hellip; <a title=\"Another Two Are Home\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61638\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Another Two Are 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-61638","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\/61638","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=61638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}