Slowly. More are being identified ... after decades of being unknown, getting their names back ... being sent home to their waiting families. In 1954, Operation Glory returned more than 800 who remained unidentified. They were interred beneath headstones that read only 'Unknown', in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. Decades later, technological advances and advocacy on their behalf are bringing them up from beneath the anonymous headstones. Many are being identified. Joint recovery operations between the U.S. and North Korea located remains in former battlefields inside the DPRK. Most of those men have been identified and returned to their families. Large and small numbers of remains returned by North Korea have brought closure to those men and their families. 

While answers to the fate of 5300 missing Americans still lie inside North Korea, the ones who have been returned to American soil are slowly being identified and sent home to their families. These are their stories.​​ 

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