Two More Are Home from Korea
DPMO has announced the identification of two more US MIAs from Korea.
CPL Lucio R. Aguilar, M Company, 35th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division, US Army, was lost on 28 November 1950 in North Korea. He was accounted for on 6 May 2014. He will be buried with full military honors in Corpus Christi, TX. Date of interment has not yet been determined.
Cpl Harold W. Reed, Weapons Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, US Marine Corps, was lost on 29 November 1950. He was accounted for on 22 April 2014. He will be buried with full military honors on 24 May 2014, in Toledo, OH.
Welcome home, my elder brothers-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, warriors. May their families finally find peace and closure.
Amen to that, LebbenB, well said.
For those of you in or near Toledo:
“The Marine Corps Honor Guard will provide full Military Honors for Harold Saturday, May 24, 2014 at 12:00 p.m. at Ottawa Hills Memorial Park, 4210 West Central Ave., where Harold will be buried next to his mother, Mildred Reed and sister Millicent Power.” (Source: Newcomer Funeral Homes, Toledo, Ohio)
Cpl Reed and I share something in common – we both served in 2/7 (I was with them from 95-97 as the BAS Chief). The BN did an awesome job of making sure that all that were assigned to it understood its lineage, and about those that served, especially during WWII and Korea. All of us (Marines and Sailors) tried to live up to the BN’s motto – “Ready for all; yielding to none” every day – in garrison, in the field and on deployment.
Welcome Home, Cpl Reed and Cpl Aguilar – we thank you for your service and your sacrifice.
Welcome Home. Rest in Peace now. May God Bless them and their families who now finally have the comfort of knowing, and having them home again.
Welcome home.
Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord,
and let perpetual light shine upon them.
May they rest in peace.
Amen.
Always proud to read that our fallen have not been forgotten from a grateful nation.
It’s rather shocking how many of our guys are still unaccounted for from that awful period of late November/early December 1950, when the Chinese intervened and caught MacArthur with his pants down. Those few weeks of combat must have been a hell on earth few of us today can even conceive of.
RIP
Welcome home, troops! RIP!
Welcome home Soldier and Marine, welcome home. God bless and hold you in His loving hands and may He bless and comfort your families now. Rest In Peace in home soil now.