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Monday, August 08, 2005


Last Monday there was a repatriation ceremony for some remains found in northern Laos. It was from the site of a crash of a C-47 in 1961 (and I think it was the first time Americans died in combat in Laos). They were flying support for the Lao Royalist Army (or the neutralists, I'm not sure) as they fought the Pathet Lao. 7 Americans died, and a few have been identified about 15 years ago, but the JPAC people (Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command) went back and found a tooth, some bone fragments, and some pieces of a flight suit. So the pieces they found are sufficient to do an identification. As such, the remains get a full honor guard repatriation to Hawaii, where the forensic lab is located. You can see a small box in the foreground. That is the remains

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