Do you have any idea if they plan on trying to ID the remains?? The reason I’m asking is my great aunt lost her only son in Korea and never knew what happened to him. Would love to find out if her son is among our guys finally coming home.
They will be sent to the Army Identification lab in Hawaii. That place has all the medical and dental records of those who are missing. Some families have had their DNA tested, and the remains will also have their DNA tested, if possible. The military will try to identify as many as possible. Hopefully, some of the remains will have dogtags or other artifacts that will help identify them.
I’ve read that during the war the Army buried about 5,000 GI’s in established cemeteries that were later over-run by NK’s or Chinese. Back in the 1980’s the NK’s were threatening to dig them up, because they were in the way of road construction projects. I don’t know if it is true or not, but I’ve read that the NK’s have a warehouse full of remains that were dug up during that period.
The Army has a repatriation branch. You can search it on the net. Teams will use modern technology, DNA, military records, jewelry recovered and a host of other things to identify these remains. On team is in Hawaii and one is here in my home state of Nebraska on Offutt Air Force Base.
Wouldn’t the fallen actually be a cousin to you? Just thinking.
The identification lab is in Hawaii, so the remains of any Soldier/Marine/Airman will be flow there first. With the advances in forensic sciences, they have a pretty good record of identifying remains. Point in fact, at the Tomb of the Unknown in Arlington National Cemetery, there are no 'unknown remains' from the Viet Nam war.