[Rabble]

My uncle's remains were unearthed during an excavation of a French farmhouse in 1964. In July, 1944 while he and his division (83th Infantry Division) were engaging the enemy near St. Lo, he was declared missing-in-action. For twenty years his loving family and wife (with a newborn) knew nothing about his disappearance.

The uncertainly and anguish they went through for 20 years was beyond description. Always the uncertainty. Always wondering what had become or their son, brother, husband, uncle, etc.

I would venture a guess that the family would have thought it the duty of the country he gave his life for to attempt all efforts at recovering his remains. I for one would ask no less of this nation, at whatever the costs.

His remains now rest in Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia.

[baa39]

That one story is enough to absolutely know it’s the right thing to do. It’s a debt of honor our country owes to those who fought, and their families.

$52 million is not much money in the overall Federal budget. We give billions and billions yearly in ‘foreign aid.’

[MediaMole]

TMZ referred to WWII as “ancient history.” It certainly isn’t to any family member who still doesn’t know what happened to a loved one.

We owe an debt to those who gave their all. If we can bring them home, we should.

[mad_as_he$$]

Lt. Colonel Hal Moore: I can't promise you that I will bring you all home alive. But this I swear, before you and before Almighty God, that when we go into battle, I will be the first to set foot on the field, and I will be the last to step off, and I will leave no one behind. Dead or alive, we will all come home together. So help me, God.

Good enough for me.