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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nBack in June, Hondo told us<\/a> that Sergeant Max Harris’ earthly remains had been identified after he was recovered from North Korea, The Journal & Courier<\/a> reports that he’s expected to return home to Monticello, Indiana this week. <\/p>\n According to Hondo, he was assigned to L Company, 3rd Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division, US Army, and he was lost in North Korea on 12 December 1950;<\/p>\n [Patsy] McCall hadn\u2019t seen her brother, who was nine years older than she was, since he left their Monticello home in the mid-\u201840s to go to Lexington, Kentucky, to work as a jockey and eventually enlist in the U.S. Army. She was only 13 by 1951, the year the Army listed that Harris had died, his body unaccounted for, as a prisoner behind North Korean lines.<\/p>\n \u201cI didn\u2019t let it go,\u201d McCall said. \u201cIt was always in your mind that maybe someday he will return \u2013 that he could be in a prison camp or something. I don\u2019t know, but you hope. I thought, you know, one day, he may return \u2013 one way or another.\u201d<\/p>\n Late Friday night, McCall will surround herself with her sons and some extended family to wait for a military procession, flanked by motorcycles of the Indiana Patriot Guard Riders, carrying her brother\u2019s remains nearly 66 years after he was declared dead.<\/p>\n On Sunday, after a noon visitation and 2 p.m. funeral at Springer-Voorhis-Draper Funeral Home, 202 S. Illinois St., Max Harris will be buried next to his mother, Lela Harris Skaggs, in Riverview Cemetery near Monticello.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve just been so happy ever since they came to tell me they\u2019d found Max,\u201d McCall said. \u201cAll my family is gone, only except for me. I said that God must have left me here for a reason. And this has to be the reason \u2013 to put him with my mom.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"