Posted on 06/26/2005 7:35:02 PM PDT by The Mayor
Korean War Missing in Action Serviceman Identified
The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced
today that the remains of a U.S. serviceman, missing in action from the Korean War,
have been identified and are being returned to his family for burial in Fergus
Falls, Minn. on Wednesday.
He is Cpl. John O. Strom of Fergus Falls, Minn.
On the night of Nov. 1, 1950, Strom's unit, 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry
Regiment, came under attack by Chinese communist forces near the village of Unsan
in North Korea. His battalion sought to escape the larger Chinese unit, and
evacuated along a route well documented in U.S. records.
The fighting raged on for several days, and by Nov. 4, those men able
to escape withdrew to friendly lines south of the Kuryong River, though more than
380 soldiers of the 8th Cavalry Regiment were unaccounted for.
In July and August 2002, a joint team of U.S. and North Korean
specialists investigated a site near Unsan where a villager had reportedly reburied
remains believed to be those of a U.S. serviceman from another location. The team,
led by the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC), excavated both sites and found
human remains as well as a few pieces of non-biological evidence. The team was
also given Strom's military identification tag found by the villager.
Laboratory analysis of the remains by forensic scientists at JPAC led
to Strom's identification. Comparisons of mitochondrial DNA results were key
factors in their finding.
Of the 88,000 Americans who are missing from all conflicts,
approximately 8,100 are from the Korean War. More than 1,800 remain unaccounted
for from the Vietnam War, 126 from the Cold War, and 78,000 from World War II.
Remains believed to be those of more than 220 American servicemen have been
recovered in joint operations in North Korea.
Hmmmmmm, have an idea about a thread......NO opening!!! We'll just have 'dueling tables' comment posts!!!!
NEXT Tuesday!!!! Ready, Set Tables, GO!!!!!
OOPS! Not NEXT Tuesday - we'll have Military Monday on Tuesday next week.....the following Tuesday, July 12th. Gather up your backgrounds, ALL!
Hi all.. been gone most of day.. looks like some ideas for fun threads are "a-cooking".. must be the heat?
and I want to volunteer to do the duel threads (did I read no opening???).. that's my kinda hostessing/posting. My last JH2 took 7 hours & so NO opening sounds pretty good!!!!
Having a margarita w/ Thai food.. how is that for international relations? Cancelled date for tonight. Just too poooped! will FReep, work on VBS pix (I am official photographer for VBS & took about 400 digitals today.) and maybe a little HTML for 4th weekend.. but then again why rush, it is always so much fun to start the night before (NOT)..
lol
you are doing some beautiful things!!! good job with the combos you chose.. you have a good eye. some experiment & have "varying results".. yours always look great
Beautiful, dutchess and LUV W!!! The both of your posts are lovely, great work! Billie is a great teacher. Dueling posts....lol, that sounds like fun :-) LUV W, I nominate you to do a thread. LOL, Billie, can I nominate someone to do a thread? Thanks for the kind words folks, wish I had more time to do a thread, but I just can't imagine doing one, maybe one day down the road :-)
Now back to lurk mode for me.
Hi Pippin, I am so sorry about your coworker, Edward. I will keep Edward (P'nut) in my prayers. Prayers for Edward, his family and friends.
God bless you!
LOL! No way!!!! Why do you think I chose *Tuesday*?!
We miss you, Pip; prayers for P'nut and family.
Thanks, Billie!
Sure - and I'll second the nomination, but you're next then. :)
Seriously, both of you are really putting lots of thought and time into creating such pretty posts, and I love having them on our threads. And as much fun as it's been since the Mission Possible thread, we really will devote another one to more of same. No theme, just whatever!
Found a good thread on the SCOTUS and the TC's.
Jewish Group Bashes Commandments Ruling
(I know, I'm obsessed)
I was in a coffee shop a couple weeks ago, two Marines walked in and sat down in another section of the place.
Before I left I walked across the place and went right up to both of them. I held out my hand to shake theirs and just said "Thank You for serving our Greay Country".
They very humbly shook my hand and said Thank you.
I do that when ever I see one of our Finest in uniform.
That is just a great story, Mayor! I try to do that whenever a soldier comes in the store where I work. I don't know about you (well, maybe I do!), but it always makes me feel so much better when I can thank them! I only hope it makes them feel better, too!
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