My Uncle Charles was lost in Korea, August 5, 1950. He was pulled from Tokyo where he served as an Army MP helping to provide security during the rebuilding of Japan.
His unit was ordered to establish a hasty defense against the invading communist armies from the north and were woefully unprepared for war. He and most of his company were wiped out and there were many MIAs.
To this day, his remains have not been identified. However, with the help of the Korean War Project website, many vets and civilians are coming together to force the U.S. government into action.
Under President Trump, a new directive has ordered the Casualty & Mortuary Affairs Branch of the U.S. Army Human Resources Command to take requests directly from the MIA families to examine specific sets of remains for a DNA match.
Several unidentified sets of remains in the Punchbowl Cemetery on Oahu have approximate physical characteristics to my Uncle. We initiated requests to have some of these remains disinterred and tested against the DNA samples our family has provided.
Maybe we will not find him in the first set or even the second or the third. But thank God someone is doing something, anything, to bring our Uncle and other brave men and women home where they belong. They did their duty and thanks to President Trump, we are finally making headway.
God bless the people performing this difficult work and we pray that each test will produce a family match - if not for us, at least for someone else.
See you soon Uncle Charles...you have not been forgotten and we're still looking.
https://www.koreanwar.org/