{"id":67759,"date":"2016-09-04T08:00:40","date_gmt":"2016-09-04T12:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=67759"},"modified":"2016-09-02T15:59:21","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T19:59:21","slug":"three-return-from-world-war-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67759","title":{"rendered":"Three Return from World War II"},"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><u>From World War II<\/u><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u2022 Pfc John W. Mac Donald<\/strong>, Company F, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marines, 2nd Marine Division, USMC, was lost on 20 November 1943 on Tarawa Atoll.  He was accounted for on 1 September 2016.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u2022 Sgt James L. Hubert<\/strong>, Company H, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marines, 2nd Marine Division, USMC, was lost on 21 November 1943 on Tarawa Atoll.  He was accounted for on 1 September 2016.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u2022 Pfc Ben H. Gore<\/strong>, Special Warfare Group, 2nd Defense Battalion, Fleet Marine Force, USMC, was lost on 25 November 1943 on Tarawa Atoll.  He was accounted for on 1 September 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome back, elder brothers-in-arms. Our apologies that your return took so long.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re home now.  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 DNA from recovered remains against DNA from some (but not all) blood relatives 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>On their web site&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpaa.mil\/Contact\/ContactUs.aspx\"><em>Contact Us<\/em><\/a>&#8221; page, DPAA now has FAQs. The answer to one of those FAQs describes who can and cannot submit DNA samples useful in identifying recovered remains. The chart giving the answer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpaa.mil\/portals\/85\/Images\/DNA.jpg\"><em>can be viewed here<\/em><\/a>. The text associated with the chart is short and can be viewed in DPAA&#8217;s FAQs.<\/p>\n<p>If your family lost someone in one of these conflicts and you qualify to submit a DNA sample, please arrange to submit one. By doing that you just might help identify the remains of a US service member who\u2019s been repatriated but not yet been identified \u2013 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 World War II &hellip; <a title=\"Three Return from World War II\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67759\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Three Return from World War II<\/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-67759","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\/67759","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=67759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}