This is amazing.
By April
@thislittlepennyearns (58137)
Defuniak Springs, Florida
November 12, 2018 12:17pm CST
I, while taking a break from doing research for an article stumbled across this story. I read through it and was amazed and almost moved to tears by the story of this family who lost one of their own over seventy years ago.
Can you imagine sending your son off to war and then never knowing what happened to them? How they died? Where they were buried or if they had even ever been buried?
This story is how a decades old mystery of a missing soldier was finally solved.
An empty foxhole and a nearby grave across the Rhine River are finally linked to yield the name of a long-missing U.S. soldier from World War II.
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@spiderdust (14741)
• San Jose, California
12 Nov 18
I lost an uncle in Korea. We don't know what happened to him. It's assumed that he was killed in action, but his remains have never been recovered.
@spiderdust (14741)
• San Jose, California
12 Nov 18
@thislittlepennyearns I do know my dad submitted a sample of his DNA to be used to help identify remains. It would be more accurate with a close female relative (I'm not sure why, but that's what the geneticists say), but his mother passed away over 10 years ago and they only had sons.
@thislittlepennyearns (58137)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
12 Nov 18
Maybe they will be found one day.
I have a customer who's great grandpa was buried on the wrong sides burial plot. So they have been fighting to get him brought back over here so they could buy him with the family. It's been a long process.
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@thislittlepennyearns (58137)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
12 Nov 18
@spiderdust Thats odd that it would be more accurate with a female's dna. I wonder why.
Hasa he heard anything back since he submitted his dna.
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@JudyEv (325776)
• Rockingham, Australia
12 Nov 18
That is a pretty amazing story. Vince's uncle was blown up in a military hospital in France and there was no body to recover. Of course, he was just one of many.
@thislittlepennyearns (58137)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
12 Nov 18
That is an incredibly horrific and sad story.
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@thislittlepennyearns (58137)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
12 Nov 18
I can imagine it would of driven the parents pretty crazy. It would make for a great setting for a book or movie.
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@HazySue (39264)
• Gouverneur, New York
12 Nov 18
@thislittlepennyearns It absolutely would.
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@thislittlepennyearns (58137)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
12 Nov 18
I w ish this technology had been available sooner so the parents hadnt of had to live out their lives not knowing the fate of their son, but i am glad for the rest of the family got an answer.
@JohnRoberts (109857)
• Los Angeles, California
12 Nov 18
Unfortunately his parents never received that closure.
@thislittlepennyearns (58137)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
12 Nov 18
Depending on your views and beliefs on heaven and the afterlife they may of her up in heaven
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