Another Is Home
DPAA has identified and accounted for the following formerly-missing US military personnel.
From Korea
• PFC Daniel Hunt, A Company, 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division, US Army, was lost on 28 September 1951 in South Korea. He was accounted for on 2 November 2016.
Welcome back, elder brother-in-arms. Our apologies that your return took so long.
Rest in peace. You’re home now.
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Over 73,000 US personnel remain unaccounted for from World War II; over 7,800 US personnel remain unaccounted for from the Korean War; and over 1,600 remain unaccounted for in Southeast Asia (SEA). Comparison of DNA from recovered remains against DNA from some (but not all) blood relatives can assist in making a positive ID for unidentified remains that have already been recovered, or which may be recovered in the future.
On their web site’s “Contact Us” page, DPAA now has FAQs. The answer to one of those FAQs describes who can and cannot submit DNA samples useful in identifying recovered remains. The chart giving the answer can be viewed here. The text associated with the chart is short and can be viewed in DPAA’s FAQs.
If your family lost someone in one of these conflicts and you qualify to submit a DNA sample, please arrange to submit one. By doing that you just might help identify the remains of a US service member who’s been repatriated but not yet been identified – as well as a relative of yours, however distant. Or you may help to identify remains to be recovered in the future.
Everybody deserves a proper burial. That’s especially true for those who gave their all while serving this nation.
Category: No Longer Missing
This young soldier, who was 18 or 19 when he Fell, was one of the many casualties of the Heartbreak Ridge, a fight that began on 13 September and lasted two weeks. It was a terrible, murderous fight in which US troops were tasked with taking a ridge that was heavily defended, the approach to which was a steep rocky slope. But this isn’t about that fight. It’s about Daniel Hunt, a Michigan native whose parents, as of the 1940 census, had eight children, seven boys and one girl. Daniel was son number five. In a stroke of luck while searching for information on Daniel, I came across a FaceBook message from October that began, “I received an email addressed to my Mom today. My great-uncle is coming home.” The great-uncle is Daniel. According to what followed in the message, “There will be a burial and memorial service on December 2, 2016 in Phoenix, AZ to bring Daniel home to rest.”
Welcome home, Daniel. Welcome to home soil.
Big family.
Tnx the research.
26LB: Much bigger, it turns out, than the Hunt family was in 1940. Here’s a link to a terrific article in the Arizona Republic. It includes a pic of Daniel. The last line alone makes the article a must read.
http://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/ej-montini/2016/11/12/montini-korean-war-missing-in-action-arizona/93646706/
Seventeen brothers and sisters. Wow.
Well, except as soon as I saw it was written by that libidiot tool E. J. Montini, I didn’t bother to read anything but the last line. I had more of that metrosexual Euroweenie wuss than I could stomach before I’d lived in Arizona 2 years. Quit reading his crap then, and haven’t read more than 3 or 4 articles he’s written in the more than 2 decades since.
Montini’s IMO a classic case of a libidiot moving somewhere nice, then trying to change it so that it’s “more like home”. Hey, Montini – if “home” was so damn nice, you’d either never have left or would have moved back long ago. Do Arizona a favor and move back to Pennsylvania.
Hondo. Well, then, I guess we know how he answered the question he asked–with a loud “No.”
Welcome home PFC Daniel Hunt.
Welcome home brother. Rest in peace in your home soil. God be with your family now.
Welcome home, brother. Rest In Peace.
RIP Brother Manchu.