Yet Another Returns
DPMO has announced the identification of another US MIA from Korea.
CPL William N. Bonner, Medical Company, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, US Army, was lost on 31 May 1951 in North Korea. He was accounted for on 22 April 2014. He will be buried with full military honors during the summer of 2014, in Sault Ste. Marie, MI. A specific date has not been announced.
Welcome home, my elder brother-in-arms. Rest in peace.
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Everybody deserves a proper burial. That’s especially true for those who gave their all in the service of this nation.
Category: No Longer Missing
Welcome home and rest well.
Rest in Peace now CPL William N. Bonner. You’re home at last.
From a grateful nation who will never forget…
Welcome home, Trooper Bonner. May your sleep be long and peaceful.
“Though some go curving down the trail
To seek a warmer scene.
No trooper ever gets to Hell
Ere he’s emptied his canteen.
And so rides back to drink again
With friends at Fiddlers’ Green.
Welcome home. Rest in peace.
Welcome home CPL William N. Bonner.
Thank you for your service. Rest in Angels Arms now and be at peace.
When these reports are posted at TAH, I try to poke around the web for something, anything personal to the casualty. Sometimes it’s a photo, sometimes nothing. Thus far, I’ve learned that this soldier was born in Sault Ste Marie, Chippewa County, Michigan. His family’s home was on Lyon Street during the 1940 census. He had a Mom (Nellie) and a Dad (Hugh)and four sisters, two younger (Elizabeth and Beryl) than he and two older (Ruth and Barbara.)I wonder did they call him Bill?
I don’t have anything more but it’s something. Rest in Peace, Corporal Bonner. Welcome home.
Air Cav, I just wanted to respond. One of his younger sisters you mention is my grandma. And he went by “Billy”. I have also tried to find pictures, but we have family mailing them in for his funeral this summer in the soo. There are alot of people waiting for him to come home!
Jill P: I just saw your 9 May comment. I returned to this thread after seeing the update this morning. Thank you. It is great to know his family remains his family.