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published: 10-sep-2004
Remains of American MIAs Found in North Korea
U.S. Department of Defense
Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs)
The remains were repatriated overland across the demilitarized zone as was done for the first three recovery operations in ...- published: 05-sep-2004
Special Notice
From the Desk of:
Robin PiacineWith National POW/MIA Recognition Day coming up September 14, 2004, it gives all of us an opportunity to speak out about the concerns we have as family members and citizens. I hope that you take the time to at least talk to someone about it, and ...
- published: 20-July-2004
18 sets of Korean War remains repatriated
By Joseph Giordono,
Stars and Stripes Pacific edition
Saturday, May 29, 2004:
Members of an honor guard salute as taps is played during a Yongsan Garrison repatriation ceremony Thursday. Eighteen sets of remains thought to be those of American soldiers killed in the Korean War ......- published: 19-June-2004
Checkout Our New Website - Korean War POW MIA Network
www.koreanwarpowmia.net
By: John Zimmerlee
Click on your loved-one's name and you'll see the names of those who went missing on the same day from the same unit. You'll also see columns for the many.....- published: 19-June-2004
2004 Department of Defense Personnel Accounting Conference
By: Robin Piacine
The purpose of the conference was to develop strategies to facilitate the planning, budgeting, and programming of the personnel accounting effort for FY05 (fiscal year 2005) with input from the family and Veteran's organizations ......- published: 19-June-2004
The Generic File . . . Updated
By: Donna Downes Knox
It took us three years of concentrated advocacy to bring about the Generic File. Families who had been actively involved in the accounting effort for years ......- published: 16-June-2004
CIA Information Report 1952
by: Richard Downes
Each ship has contained 1,000 or more prisoners. Between the end of November 1951 and April 1952 transports of P.O.W.s were sent by rail from the Poset ......- published: 19-June-2004
Nielsen-Henderson List
By: John Zimmerlee
As the story goes, hundreds of men were about to be released, when the Communists realized that the U.S. wasn't aware of their existence. The airmen were hurriedly loaded up and carried away, never to be heard from again. Heroically, two men, Nielsen and Henderson, compiled a list of ......- published: 19-June-2004
The US/Russia Joint Commission on POW/MIAs ...
Is It Still Standing?
By: Donna Downes Knox
If we are going to get answers to questions about the fate of men who were reportedly taken to the former Soviet Union during the Korean and Cold Wars, they will come as the result of this commission's work. Now, more than ever, that work is being done primarily by the Joint Commission Support Directorate ('JCSD'). The Commission itself ......- published: 20-June-2004
Reaching Beyond DPMO (Part 1½)
By: Richard Downes
In the last issue ... I began a series of articles outlining my plan to initiate an ongoing dialogue about the MIA issue with the local office for each of my elected officials. The idea was to ......- published: 16-June-2004
From The Desk of Robin Piacine
On April 13-15th a U.S.-Russia Archival Conference was held at the National Archives in College Park, Maryland. The conference was attended by the U.S.- Russia Joint Commission as well as archivists from around the country. Some of those represented the Library of Congress such as Dr. Harry Leich, and from institutes of higher learning such ......- published: 16-June-2004
Personnel Accounting Report
Joint Recovery Operations in North Korea
By: Robin Piacine
The area of the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea yielded 12 sets of remains believed to be those of U.S. Army soldiers from the 7th Infantry Division. They were engaged against Chinese forces during the time period ......- published: 14-June-2004
The Mystery Behind the Truly Missing
By: Richard Downes
It has a cloak-and-dagger feel, as if the agent returned from a late night, clandestine encounter then sat down at his old Smith/Corona, and pecked out the astounding details. The report was quickly classified ......- published: 19-June-2004
The Coalition Can Help You!
"Networking with other family members whose loved ones were lost in the same incident or area is a valuable way of locating additional information that may not be in the official case files." By submitting ......- published: 19-June-2004
The Coalition Needs Your Email Address!
Due to workload and rising costs, we’re discussing the future of the printed newsletter. Though no firm ......- published: 01-June-2004
Asking for Debriefings…Again
By: Donna Downes Knox
All these years later, the Soviet Union has become a federation of democratic states within which our investigators and researchers are working. China is ......- published: 01-June-2004
Recent US & North Korea Negotiations Yield Changes
By: Robin Piacine
By: Robin Piacine According to a news release from the United States Department of Defense, February 12, 2004, the talks included the agreement to "resume repatriating the remains recovered during joint recovery operation in North Korea ......- published: 01-June-2004
We'll help you get answers, if . . .
By: John Zimmerlee
To help us help you more efficiently, we need your email addresses. Inquiries with email addresses will be processed first. We also need your permission to receive information directly from Government sources and to discuss your loved-ones case......- published: 01-June-2004
Reaching Beyond DPMO
By: Richard Downes
I began wondering if other family members wanted to do the same thing but were also daunted by the process. So I've decided to chronicle the experience. This article begins a.....- published: 01-June-2004
Update on House Resolution 103
By: Robin Piacine
According to Section 2 of the Resolution, the committee function is "to conduct a full investigation of all unresolved matters relating to any United States personnel unaccounted for from the Vietnam era, the Korean conflict, World War II, Cold War Missions, or Gulf War, including .....- published: 01-June-2004
Asking for Debriefings…Again
By: Donna Downes Knox
All these years later, the Soviet Union has become a federation of democratic states within which our investigators and researchers are working. China is ......- published: 01-June-2004
Recent US & North Korea Negotiations Yield Changes
By: Robin Piacine
By: Robin Piacine According to a news release from the United States Department of Defense, February 12, 2004, the talks included the agreement to "resume repatriating the remains recovered during joint recovery operation in North Korea ......- published: 01-June-2004
We'll help you get answers, if . . .
By: John Zimmerlee
To help us help you more efficiently, we need your email addresses. Inquiries with email addresses will be processed first. We also need your permission to receive information directly from Government sources and to discuss your loved-ones case......- published: 01-June-2004
Reaching Beyond DPMO
By: Richard Downes
I began wondering if other family members wanted to do the same thing but were also daunted by the process. So I've decided to chronicle the experience. This article begins a.....- published: 01-June-2004
Update on House Resolution 103
By: Robin Piacine
According to Section 2 of the Resolution, the committee function is "to conduct a full investigation of all unresolved matters relating to any United States personnel unaccounted for from the Vietnam era, the Korean conflict, World War II, Cold War Missions, or Gulf War, including .....- published: 01-June-2004
Unbelievable Uncovering of
Korean War POW/MIA Documents (Part 2)
By: John Zimmerlee
Due to the McCain Act and some other bureaucratic non-sense, we can't easily identify each other as having a common interest . . . the missing men from the Korean and Cold Wars. That's why the Coalition of Families was born. In the last newsletter, I wrote about my search for.....- published: 03-mar-2004
Annual Government Briefings Korean War and Cold War POW/MIA Families
April 30, 2004:Registration Begins at 7:30 AM, Briefings 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM. By appointment: Discussion of individual case information with casualty officers and government experts 1:00 to 5:30 PM.
May 01, 2004 : Briefings 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM. By appointment: Discussion of individual case casualty officers and government experts 1:00 PM to 5:30 PM.
- published:04-mar-2004
Detailed Agenda Day 1 & Day 2 of the Briefings- published: 15-mar-2004
Coalition Board Update
From the Desk of:
Coalition President
Robin Piacine
As many of you may be aware, there have been a few changes to the Coalition Board over the past few months.- published: 27-feb-2004
I Will Help You Get Answers
Says the Coalition Information Manager John Zimmerlee. John has devoted countless hours in dark, musky, dirty file rooms, digging thru box after box of dust covered files searching for answers that will account for the more than 8,100 servicemen still listed as MIA from the Korean War.- published: 06-mar-2004
Coalition Members Meet with DPMO
By: Coalition President:
Robin Piacine
The purpose of the meeting was to review on-going operations, and to reinforce the needs of our family members as well as discuss the goals of the Coalition.- published: 06-mar-2004
Why You Should Support House Resolution 103?
The purpose of the House Resolution 103 is to form a committee titled “Select Committee on POW and MIA Affairs.” This committee’s function according to Sec 2 of the Resolution is: “to conduct a full investigation of all unresolved matters relating to any United States personnel unaccounted for from the Vietnam era, the Korean conflict, World War II, Cold War Missions, or Gulf War, including MIA’ and POW’s.”- published: 06-mar-2004
U.S. - North Korean 2004 Joint Recovery Operations
There will be five separate operations at two locations each. The areas being excavated will be in Unsan County 60 miles north of Pyongyang, North Korea and the Chosin Reservoir area.- published: jan-2004
How to Become Active in the POW/MIA Issue
By: Gerri Montgomery Prescott
I've met so many wonderful family members along my personal journey searching for my father, an F-84 pilot shot down over North Korea on March 3, 1952.- published: jan-2004
The President's Corner
By: Robin Mayberry
It is my honor and privilege to have been selected as your new President. I am humbled and proud to be chosen for this very important office.- published: jan-2004
Changing Winds
By: Richard Downes
Of course, no man or woman will ever be left behind. Then reality sets in, wars develop a political personality, and Johnny doesn't always return to the same patriotic fervor.- published: jan-2004
We'll Help You Get Answers
By: John Zimmerlee, Publisher
Several years ago, our Government created departments and divisions to help family members get answers on missing Servicemen.- published: jan-2004
Joint Commission and its Ongoing Struggle for Answers
By: Robin Mayberry
According to the information provided by the commission, the objectives are: "to determine whether American servicemen are being held against their will on the territory of the former Soviet Union and,- published: jan-2004
CILHI Reorganized
The U.S. Army Central Identification Laboratory (CILHI) and the Joint Task Force-Full Accounting have been reorganized and are now known as the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC).- published: jan-2004
Service Casualty Office
This is where you start if you have a missing loved-one from the Korean or Cold Wars.- published: jan-2004
Family Updates (Revised)
DPMO conducts meetings monthly in different geographical areas throughout the United States selected to provide direct accessibility,- published: jan-2004
Harold Downes
Featured Korean POW/MIA
By: Richard Downes
Many long letters of love, extremely cold weather, and guidance from a husband and father for a young wife and their children were sent home. His wife Lee was taking care of the family alone ... their young son, and a little girl on the way.
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Begin Docs post 01-jan-2004- "Quick Links"
Check here for simple "quick links" to the latest news on this site.- "Coalition Survey Question"
Introducing a new feature at the Coalition of Families: This will feature one or two questions about issues that are of particular interest to the Coalition of Families and a space for comments. Your participation is encouraged and appreciated.- Lt. Charles “Snapper”
Garrison, USN
By: Janis Garrison Curran
I recall someone coming to the door and handing my mother a piece of paper. As she read it she started slowly backing up, as if she was trying to distance herself from the information it contained.- North Korean defector
tells of American POWs
in recent captivity
By: Donna Downes Knox
The following are excerpts from remarks Kim made on February 24, 2000, at the Annual General Assembly of Citizens Alliance to Help Political Prisoners in North Korea.- U.S. / Russian Commission update
By: Irene L. Mandra
They continue to move ahead on the archival research effort at Podolsk and on the interview program targeted at Korean War Veterans in the former USSR.- Book Review
True Colors by: James Thompson
1,004 Days as A Prisoner of War
By: Irene L. Mandra
The author is a patriotic African-American, with whom the Chinese attempted to plant seeds of racial discord among black and white prisoners to fuel their hatred of Americans.- Unsung Heros of the Korean War
Task Force MacLean/Task Force Faith
Augmented by: Irene L. Mandra
“Finally reaching Hudong, they found that the regimental tank company, which they believed would prove to be their salvation, had already been withdrawn to Hagaru.”- Update on List of 239
associated with Punchbowl unknowns
The point at issue has been whether these 239 missing men are among those buried at the Punchbowl Cemetery in Hawaii.- Progress in Korea as of
January 2, 2001
Provided by the Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office
Time line of the POW/MIA issue in Korea through January 2, 2001.- Progress in China as of
December 29, 2000
Provided by the Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office
Time line of the POW/MIA issue in China through December 29, 2000.- Remains Recovery and Identification
Of the eight remains found during the second operation, four were found in the Kujang area; four were found in the Kaechon area, also referred to as The Gauntlet.- Status of 208 remains returned
by North Korea in early 90s
By: Donna Downes Knox
Previously we had been told by the DPMO Special Projects unit that there were 20 tags, but Steve Thompson, head of the Korea section at CILHI, tells us that there were actually 38.- Another South Korean
POW escapes from North Korea
Lee is the twentieth South Korean POW, that we know of, to escape from North Korea since 1994.- Tell Dad Not to Worry
By: Frank Niader
A poem Submitted by: Irene L. Mandra.- Changes in attitudes,
changes in latitudes
Sadly, the political landscape has long since grown over with other issues, and most in Washington never stop to think of, or mention, the men who were left behind in the struggle to preserve freedom.- The Coalition Welcomes Its
Two Newest Volunteers
We are happy to announce the generous contribution of time and skill offered by two family members since we requested help in our last newsletter.Note: This article was written the 1st week of August, 2001, long before the attack on our Nation.
- President Bush too busy
to discuss Joint Commission
Report with General LaJoie
As we understand it, General LaJoie received a letter from Steve Hadley, Deputy National Security Advisor, saying essentially, “Thanks, but the President is too busy to meet with you.”- Raising the funds to
turn this issue around
By: Donna Downes Knox
In the last 10 years, a collective effort has moved the Korean and Cold War POW/MIA issue from relative obscurity to a place at the table, so to speak. In the process we have learned that real progress, in the form of real answers, is going to take funding.- Cold War Museum:
Update 2001
By: Francis Gary Powers, Jr., Founder
We are at a critical stage of our development. In January, the Cold War Museum became a Smithsonian Institution Affiliate Museum.- Closure At Last
By: Charlotte Busch Mitnik
On Friday June 22, 2001, Air Force Captain James Swayne Wilson, Jr.’s remains were at last laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery ...- Remarks by Francis Gary Powers, Jr.
Memorial Day Ceremony May 24th, 2001
Fort Meade, Maryland
Submitted by: Mr. Powers for publication in the Update & Review
One of the great ironies of the 20th Century is that America’s longest war is also its least memorialized.- The continuing search
for answers in Russia
By Donna Downes Knox
On July 1, three U.S. investigators from the Joint Commission Support Directorate (JCSD) Moscow office were expelled, as part of the tit-for-tat expulsion of diplomats between the U.S. and Russia.- Opportunities for Answers
By: Donna Downes Knox
When the truth comes to be known, as it surely will sooner or later, all those who merely pretended to address it, and certainly those who willfully suppressed it, will wear the taint of complicity.- Out and About
- "Rolling Thunder" Creed
- About My Brother, PFC Alfred Gold
By: Sylvia Gold Groden
When I was 4 years old, my life changed. My brother Freddie was born.- Research and Analysis:
The 208 Unilaterally Returned Remains
By Donna Downes Knox
Between 1990 and 1994, North Korea unilaterally returned 208 sets of remains they said were those of Americans lost during the Korean War.- Nearly 4,000 Returned
POW Debriefs Located
By Donna Downes Knox
In its recently published report, The Effort to Account for U.S. Servicemen Missing From the Korean War, DPMO mentions a new database they’ve developed that contains some 64,000 sighting reports mentioned in more than 3,210 debriefs of men who were repatriated after the Korean War.
POW/MIA Remains Recovery Team
Lost in Helicopter Crash
Sixteen people who were part of an advance POW/MIA remains recovery team were killed in early April when their helicopter crashed in Quang Binh Province in Vietnam.- Remains Recovery
Memorandum of Agreement
In its 2000 Annual Report, DPMO states that the U.S. and South Korea (ROK) signed a Memorandum of Agreement last June whereby the ROK will provide information it develops about possible American remains.- The New Bush Administration
The country has been watching the Bush Administration unfold, each of us anxious for an indication of how new policies might affect issues of importance to us.- Different Time, Different Plane, Same Story
By: Charlotte Busch Mitnik
The terminology “air accident” has been used many times in the past 50 or so years. You may ask the family members of the crews still missing how many times that they heard or read those words.- TFR Documents
The Library of Congress has upgraded their US-Russia Joint Commission on-line database to include the most current TFR documents which have been translated into English.- Trivia
...the U.S. Marine Corps, like all services, was under-strength and still equipped with World War Two equipment so, when ordered to Korea.- Remains Identification
DNA Sequencing at AFDIL. AFDIL continues to process family reference specimens (FRS) as part of the overall identification process.- U.S. Russian Commission
Less than a month ago, the U.S.-Russia Joint Commission on POW/MIAs silently marked its ninth anniversary.Special Announcement
- Technological Support Needed
The Coalition has been developing a database of various lists of names and information pertaining to missing servicemen from the Korean and Cold Wars.- The Gulag Study
The original report release of this study was in April, 2000. This is a release of the complete Gulag Study, (Gulag POW Camps) prepared by The Joint Commission Support Directorate of the U.S. Russian Joint Commission in January 2001.- On the Ground in Russia
By Donna Downes Knox
This article takes a look at some of the specific projects our investigators have in the works relative to the reported transfer of American servicemen to the former Soviet Union.- New DPMO Publication: The Effort to Account for U.S. Servicemen Missing from the Korean War
By Donna Downes Knox
DPMO has recently released a 68 page booklet detailing the U.S. Government’s effort to account for men missing from Korea.
- Last Rites Pending
America's Korean War 'Unknowns' … Buried Twice, Not Home Yet!
... ceremonies, little noted in the press, were kept deliberately low-key to avoid what an Army directive called "unfavorable publicity" about an "extremely sensitive" subject.- "IT IS WITH DEEPEST REGRET……"
By Gerri Montgomery Prescott
The telegram arrived on March 3, 1952. My father, Lt. Col. Gerald Emerson Montgomery, age 29, veteran of WWII, fighter pilot, and Deputy Operations Officer of the 136th Fighter Bomber Wing of the 5th Air Force became missing in action on March 3, 1952.- Identification of Remains
Identification of remains that are returned through the joint recovery operations is an entirely separate issue from identification of remains that have been buried as unknowns at the Punchbowl cemetery in Hawaii since the end of the Korean war.- 3 Recovery Operations Yield Many Remains
In June, U.S. and North Korean negotiators agreed to five joint recovery operations this year.- Interaction with North Korea:
Will it lead to progress in our accounting effort?
by Donna Downes Knox
Various factions in South Korea, including some opposition legislators, have objected to the unilateral return of the long-held North Koreans. Hundreds of South Korean POWs and civilians who were kidnapped by the North have reportedly been held against their will in North Korea for years, although North Korea denies these allegations.- Little to Say About China
by Donna Downes Knox
Mr. Jones has asked for access to the Chinese military museum and their archives, but he reports that there has been no response from Chinese officials.- The Distinction Between POWs and MIAs
Chip Beck (USN Retired), did two tours in Vietnam with Special Forces. He is a former POW Special Investigator with the U.S. Russia Joint Commission on POW/MIAs, and a retired CIA Clandestine Service officer.- Korean War Honors
By Mario Maggiulli KWV
Reprinted by Irene L. Mandra
During the Korean War, 131 Americans earned the Medal of Honor because of their tremendous courage, pride and grim determination against a vicious and savage enemy.- 50 Years Later,
North and South Korean Families,
Separated by War, Reunite
Parents and children; sisters and brothers; husbands and wives. They fell into each other's arms. They wept. They exchanged stories .....- My Plea
a poem By Joseph F. Shearer
Submitted by Irene L. MandraNot once have I forgotten
All the freedom I once had ....- Bush and the Gore campaigns Respond
about the need to account for
America's POW/MIAs
Letters from both the Bush and the Gore campaigns address their views about the need to account for America's POW/MIAs.- FY 2001 Defense Authorization Act
The Senate's version of the Bill (# S-2549) contains a provision (section 1045) that would allow the Defense Intelligence Agency to withhold its operational files from disclosure to the public.- Clinton's Memorial Day Speech
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release May 29, 2000
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
AT MEMORIAL DAY SERVICE
Arlington National Cemetery
Arlington, Virginia
11:40 A.M. EDT- Comments on Clinton Memorial Day Speech
By Donna Downes Knox
The President owes the missing men and their families an open discussion of the live prisoner issue...the fact that men who were known to be alive in enemy hands never returned; that men were known to have been taken to China and the Soviet Union; that men have been sighted over the years in North Korea with no acceptable explanation to the families of missing servicemen.- Unnamed POWs
By Donna Downes Knox
We have worked for a long time to get DPMO to establish a process by which families will be informed of classified information about POWs that are not specifically named in a given report. At last DPMO head Bob Jones has instituted a policy whereby they have created what is being called the 'Generic File'.- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE POLICY REGARDING
THE RECOVERY AND IDENTIFICATION OF
REMAINS OF MISSING PERSONNEL
This policy sets forth procedures for the recovery and identification of remains of personnel missing as a result of hostile action. The policy also outlines procedures to distinguish those individuals for whom identifiable remains cannot be recovered.- POW/MIA "Dogtag" Stamp
I understand from your latest philatelic catalog that the U.S. Postal Service plans to discontinue sale of the POW/MIA 32-cent stamp on June 30 and to destroy existing stocks.- US, N.Korea to Resume Talks on Korean War Dead
By Arshad Mohammed
The talks would take place in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur nearly 50 years after North Korean communist forces invaded South Korea, triggering a three-year conflict that ended with an armistice that divided the Korean peninsula into two countries still technically at war.- We’ll Help You Find Answers!
By John Zimmerlee
Not satisfied with ...
‘Just didn’t come back’?
The Coalition has been busy digging up info from the Archives and other sources. We’re ready to share what we’ve found.- Book Review: Last Seen Alive
By Irene Mandra
Some books about the POW/MIA issue just ask the questions all of us have asked for years. There is one that not only finds new questions but also provides a lot of new answers and new evidence.- US Seeks N Korea Remains Talks
The Pentagon said today it invited North Korea to resume negotiations on a joint effort to find and recover remains of American servicemen unaccounted for from the Korean War- North Korea Approves Remains Talks February 4, 2000
"They apparently haveagreed to discuss the number of remains and the conflict in the accounting, and we would assume there would be a full discussion of returning those remains," Cohen said in an interview.- Update NK Remains Offer
Yesterday (February 3rd) , DPMO held a briefing for family and veterans groups to update us all on the strategy DPMO will take in responding to North Korea's recent claim that they have discovered 415 sets of American remains in the Unsan area, and are prepared to repatriate them. ( Related story below: Korean War Remains Discovered)- Korean War Remains Discovered
Over the last several days, developments have come up regarding U.S.remains in North Korea.- AFDIL....Family Outreach Program
Since 1992, the Department of Defense and the military Services have been actively collecting maternal family reference specimens from family members of military personnel whose remains have not been recovered or identified from Southeast Asia, Cold War incidents, Korea and World War II. The individual military Service Casualty offices continue to seek family members to update their databases.- Talks Breakdown Between US and North Korean Officials
The negotiations were aimed at setting a schedule for recovery operations and archival research in NK for the year 2000. ( Related story below: DoD and North Korean officials have set mettings for December)- DoD and North Korean officials have set mettings for December
See In The News Section, NK Meetings Set, for details.- Recovery and Identification of Remains
Recovery and Identification of Remains is of the of the nine original anchor sections on this web site. On December 4th 1999, the first of several new articles relevant to this complex process were added to the section. Along with the addition of the new materials the section received a entirely new look. If you haven't visited this section recently, be sure to stop in and see what is new.- Coalition of Families Newsletter Archive
We realize that information from past issues of our newsletter can be new and relevant to someone. That someone might be a student doing a research paper, who later becomes a government official concerned about the issue. It could be new member who needs to catch up on the Coalition's past efforts. With thoughts like these in mind, we opened the door to this new addition in the wee hours of the morning, Saturday, December 4th 1999. This Archive also has a link in the "Other Items of Interest" section.- Special Features
While this is not an entirely new section, it has received a completely new look. Here is you will find the stories of missing American servicemen and often stories about their families...the people who are working so hard to get a full accounting. Stop in often and watch this section grow as new features are added.- The Coalition of Families' Photo Album
The Photo Album is the latest addition to the Coalition of Families web site & something we thought everyone would enjoy. Drop by and have a look at these first series of photos. A link to the photo album is also linked in the "Other Items of Interest" section of the web site. We hope you enjoy the new addition. Lets us hear from you.- Facts About the St. Louis Fire and Lost Records
Many families of missing servicemen have been told that their loved ones' records were destroyed in a fire in St. Louis some years back. The following article contains information about that fire, which might be helpful to some of you in your searches for information.- President Clinton commemorated Veterans Day
by calling for ``the fullest possible accounting'' of all Americans still missing in action, as remains of three soldiers killed in the Korean War headed home to the United States.- Maine Family Outreach Effort Update
A small team of DPMO and Armed Forces DNA Laboratory specialists met last weekend in Bangor, ME. - published: 05-sep-2004
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