{"id":64088,"date":"2016-01-31T08:00:02","date_gmt":"2016-01-31T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=64088"},"modified":"2016-01-31T10:14:09","modified_gmt":"2016-01-31T15:14:09","slug":"another-delayed-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64088","title":{"rendered":"Another Delayed Return"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

From Korea<\/p>\n

\u2022 PFC Roy A. Henderson<\/strong>, B Company, 1st Battalion, 29th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division, US Army, was lost on 27 July 1950 in South Korea. He was accounted for on 14 January 2016.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re no longer missing, elder brother-in-arms. Our apologies that your return took so long.<\/p>\n

Rest in peace. You\u2019re home now.<\/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

DPAA’s web site now has what appears to be a decent “Contact Us” page<\/a><\/em>. 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 refer you to someone who can answer that question – or may be able to answer the question themselves. If you think you might possibly qualify, please contact one of those POCs for further information.<\/p>\n

If your family lost someone in one of these conflicts and 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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Author’s Note<\/span>:\u00a0 the linked DPAA webpage indicates PFC Henderson was lost in “North Korea”.\u00a0 This is incorrect.\u00a0 US ground forces were being pushed south throughout July 1950, and were all well south of Seoul on 27 July 1950.\u00a0 PFC Henderson became MIA (and thus was “lost”) in South<\/span> Korea.\u00a0 Based on his unit’s known history<\/a>, he was most likely lost in the general vicinity of Chinju (now Jinju), South Korea.
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