The United States has fought several wars over the years. The cost of war is high, lives lost being the highest cost. Many of those lost in past wars have not been brought home for proper burial. This is not right.
What can you do? You can go to http://www.jpac.pacom.mil/... The Joint POW/MIA Accounting Committee.
Thousands of remains of US Soldiers have been recovered, but are not identified. This can be fixed with help from you. The Family Reference Sample program collects a small mtDNA sample and uses that to ID our Soldiers and Sailors who died in our wars.
If you have any relative who died in any war (well WW 2 to today), who was not identified, please consider if you're able to help. Your family member deserves it, and this nation wants to honor them properly.
Does it work? Yes! Two more of our nations dead have been identified in the last few weeks: Pfc. Ronald C. Huffman, U.S. Army, K Company, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Infantry Regiment, was lost on Feb. 12, 1951, during a battle near Saemal, South Korea. He was accounted for on Aug. 8, 2013. He will be buried with full military honors in Princeton, W.Va.
Pfc. Herene K. Blevins, U. S. Army, 7th Infantry Division, 31st Regimental Combat Team, was lost on Dec. 2, 1950, near the eastern banks of the Chosin Reservoir, North Korea. He was accounted for on Aug. 6, 2013. He will be buried with full military honors in Hagerstown, Md.
Welcome home brothers.