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After a solemn ceremony at Hickam, the hard work begins in identifying the remains. One family is a step nearer to closure, with the discovery of a single dog tag among the relics that the North Koreans returned with the remains. <\/p>\n
The Military Times reports the military has contacted the family of a service member missing from the Korean War. whose dog tag was found among the 55 cases of war remains repatriated to the U.S. on Thursday.<\/p>\n
His family will be presented that tag in Arlington, Va., next week as they arrive with hundreds of others for an annual meeting on the efforts to find their missing family members.<\/p>\n
The dog tag was among the cases of human bones and a limited number of artifacts, such as boots, buttons and buckles that North Korea said came from the village of SinHung-Ri, location of the 1950 Battle of Chosin Reservoir, said John Byrd, chief scientist for the Defense POW\/MIA Accounting Agency.<\/p>\n
More than 3,000 U.S. Marines and soldiers perished at Chosin, and more than 12,000 were wounded in one of costliest battles of the war. Byrd said the North Koreans said the bones came from the eastern side of the village, which leads him to believe they are likely Army remains.<\/p>\n
More than 5,300 U.S. remains are still missing in North Korea.<\/p>\n
Byrd, who participated in previous remains transfers from North Korea before those exchanges were suspended in 2005, rode on the C-17 into Wonson, North Korea, last Friday. There on the ground, he was greeted by North Korean officers who showed him the contents of the boxes. Byrd said he performed a cursory review of bones to verify they were human.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was confirmed in Wonson before we actually loaded the boxes onto the C-17,\u201d Byrd said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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