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How You Can Help Find Someone Missing in Action

There are 45,000 service members missing in action from World War II and other wars who experts say are recoverable. But the Pentagon’s $100 million per year effort to identify them has solved...

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4 Ways to Really Fix the Pentagon’s Effort to ID 83,000 Missing Service Members

Last week, we wrote about the Pentagon’s floundering efforts to find and identify the 83,000 service members missing from past conflicts—of which the military ID’d just 60 last year. As our story laid...

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Why Did the Pentagon Give Up on a Fallen GI?

U.S. Army Private First Class Lawrence S. Gordon—killed in Normandy in 1944, then mistakenly buried as a German soldier—will soon be going home to his family. But don’t thank the American military for...

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Pentagon Finally Overhauls Effort to Identify Its Missing

The Pentagon is overhauling its efforts to find and identify missing service members from past wars, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced Monday. The changes address the problems laid out in an...

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The Big Revamp of the Pentagon’s Troubled Mission to Find Missing Soldiers...

With Congressional pressure and media scrutiny intensifying, the defense secretary came out with a bold plan to fix the Pentagon’s struggling mission to recover remains of missing service members:...

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The Pentagon Finally Decides to Dig Up the Remains of a Long-Lost Soldier

After years of refusing to act, the U.S. military has reversed course and has decided to disinter the possible grave of Arthur “Bud” Kelder, a POW from World War II who is buried anonymously in an...

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The Litany of Problems With the Pentagon’s Effort to Recover MIAs

The Defense Department’s inspector general has drafted a stinging rebuke of the Pentagon’s struggling effort to recover the remains of missing service members from past wars, concluding the mission...

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How You Can Help Find Someone Missing in Action

Aeriel view of the Pentagon. (Photo: Frontpage/Shutterstock)There are 45,000 service members missing in action from World War II and other wars who experts say are recoverable. But the Pentagon's $100...

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4 Ways to Really Fix the Pentagon's Effort to ID 83,000 Missing Service Members

An aerial view of the roof of the Pentagon. (Photo: SF photo/Shutterstock)Last week, we wrote about the Pentagon's floundering efforts to find and identify the 83,000 service members missing from past...

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Why Did the Pentagon Give Up on a Fallen GI?

Before serving in World War II, Lawrence Gordon worked on a ranch in Wyoming. He enlisted in the U.S. Army two months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. (Photo: Gordon family)U.S. Army Private First...

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Pentagon Finally Overhauls Effort to Identify Its Missing

An aerial view of the roof of the Pentagon. (Photo: SF photo/Shutterstock)The Pentagon is overhauling its efforts to find and identify missing service members from past wars, Defense Secretary Chuck...

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The Big Revamp of the Pentagon's Troubled Mission to Find Missing Soldiers...

An aerial view of the roof of the Pentagon. (Photo: SF photo/Shutterstock)With Congressional pressure and media scrutiny intensifying, the defense secretary came out with a bold plan to fix the...

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The Pentagon Finally Decides to Dig Up the Remains of a Long-Lost Soldier

Gravestones decorated with U.S. flags to commemorate Memorial Day at the Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. (Photo: Frontpage/Shutterstock)After years of refusing to act, the U.S....

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The Litany of Problems With the Pentagon's Effort to Recover MIAs

The Pentagon. (Photo: Michael Baird/Flickr)The Defense Department's inspector general has drafted a stinging rebuke of the Pentagon's struggling effort to recover the remains of missing service members...

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The Pentagon Has Finally Identified the Remains of a POW Lost Since 1942

Bud Kelder (far left) before World War II. (Photo: John Eakin)Missing overseas for 73 years, an American POW who perished in World War II is finally going home.Last week, the Pentagon officially...

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