As we honor America’s fallen on this Memorial Day, up to 72,000 World War II troops remain unaccounted for, along with roughly 10,000 more from all military conflicts since.
In an incredible example of “gone, but not forgotten,” two military forensic labs are working to discover and identify remains. Here’s more, via Stars and Stripes:
[A] federal lab tucked away above the bowling alley at Offutt Air Force Base near Omaha and a sister lab in Hawaii are steadily answering those lingering questions, aiming to offer 200 families per year the chance to honor their relatives with a proper burial.
Carrie Brown, a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency lab manager at Offutt, told Stars and Stripes the labs are racing against time.
They may not even have been alive when that service member was alive, but that story gets carried down through the generations. They may have seen on the mantle a…
