Posted on 06/23/2018 3:38:35 AM PDT by GonzoII
The U.S. military said Saturday it was moving 100 caskets to the demilitarized zone between the two Koreas, to receive the remains of U.S. soldiers killed during the Korean War.
The cases will remain in the border village of Panmunjom for a few days until being sent into North Korea so the North can begin the process of returning the remains of Americans who were killed or died during the 1950s conflict, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported.
According to the agency tasked with overseeing issues POW/MIA issues, North Korea has as many as 200 sets of remains ready to be returned.
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It’s a start....Far more than any other President has achieved.
Indeed but for now they are taking a little trip home.
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.
But, hey, let’s get back to talking about Melania’s wardrobe, media.
Do you think the alphabet channels will even mention this?
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.
Truly sad how most of the media is more consumed with character assassination of the President and his family or with publishing fraudulent stories and pictures to inflate the illegal immigrant child issue...
Trump keeps getting done what no previous POTUS has been able to.
No. Most of them are old dead white people and Melania wore a jacket they don’t like.
I imagine the military news outlets and veteran groups will get the word out! Word of mouth is still the best “news source”.
Wouldn’t the fallen actually be a cousin to you? Just thinking.
Trump got nothing from NK. /s
Wonder if any word on the return of the US ship, Pueblo? 50 years in captivity...
I just sent the link to drudge. fwiw
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.
NO!!! They are NOT “old dead white people”
They WERE and ALWAYS will be YOUNG American soldiers or Marines who gave up their futures in the defense of their world and country.
“FOREVER YOUNG”
You think I think they are old dead white people?
Hopefully the remains returned will be actual human remains, unlike the return of animal bones to the British under the claim that they were the remains of one of its soldiers killed during the Korean War.
I owe YOU a large apology. I clicked back to the original postings and YOU were truly calling the MEDIA clowns “olde dead white people.” No way were you referring to our sacred lost. Really sorry about that.
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