The Korean War Project (KWP), a wonderful web site dedicated to Korean War issues, is assisting in the
search to locate families of Korean War missing. Some 6,000 of the more than 8,100 families have yet to be
located. These families need to be found, not only so that they can receive information about their own
missing loved ones, but because the DNA database that is needed to identify repatriated remains will be
most accurate and most useful if it contains samples from a majority of the men’s families.
The KWP will begin posting a list of those men whose families have not yet been found, arranged by state
and county, as of May 1st, 2001. The search for these families will be helped if news of the search spreads
from community to community. The KWP asks us all to contact our local media and ask them to publish the lists
of men missing from our areas.