Posted on 10/23/2015 1:39:53 PM PDT by robowombat
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency has announced burial dates for four Korean War soldiers whose remains had previously been identified and returned to their families.
To be buried with full military honors are:
• Army Cpl. Grant H. Ewing, 28, was buried Oct. 19 in his hometown of Fort Lupton, Colorado. Ewing was assigned to Battery C, 38th Field Artillery Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division, which was deployed north and east of the town of Kunu-ri, North Korea. It would be later learned he was captured by Chinese forces, but died in a POW camp in February 1951.
• Army Cpl. George H. Mason, 19, was buried Oct. 20 in his hometown of Byhalia, Mississippi. Mason was assigned to the 2nd Reconnaissance Company, 2nd Infantry Division, which was deployed near Chuam-ni, South Korea. Mason was reported as missing in action on Feb. 14, 1951.
• Army Cpl. Robert V. Witt, 20, of Bellflower, will be buried Saturday in Whittier. Witt was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 31st Regimental Combat Team, 7th Infantry Division. Witt was reported as missing in action on Dec. 2, 1950. It was later learned he had been captured, but died in a North Korean prisoner of war camp on Jan. 31, 1951.
• Army Cpl. Robert E. Meyers, 21, of Greencastle, Pa., will be buried Monday in Arlington National Cemetery. Meyers, who was assigned to Company A, 2nd Engineer Combat Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division, was declared missing on Dec. 1, 1950, after his unit was involved in combat operations in the vicinity of Sonchu, North Korea. His remains were among those returned after the war, but unidentifiable at the time, and subsequently buried as an “unknown” in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Hawaii, also known as the “Punchbowl.”
Source: The Veterans of Foreign Wars
Two of these men died as POWs. I’m guessing they didn’t die of obesity or high blood sugar. Whenever I hear liberals boo-hooing about Abu Ghraib or Guantanamo or waterboarding, I think of how barbarically our troops are treated by their captors, and I have trouble getting too teary over the fact that some muslime’s salad fork wasn’t chilled properly.
That’s a long time to be identified. Or were they just returned?
Prayers.
They are with their Maker and have REAL peace.
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