Articles that share the story about the identification of missing U.S. service members make me happy for the families that are involved. They get closure. The stories also make me happy because the professional genealogist involved in analyzing records, identifying generations of the service member’s extended family, and determining possible family to provide the DNA connection, is likely a friend of mine. I don’t know who the genealogist was in a case I heard about recently.
A local TV station shared a story about a now identified Minnesota WWII soldier. “Remains of World War II soldier from Minnesota formally identified after 80 years.”https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/remains-of-world-war-ii-soldier-from-minnesota-formally-identified-after-80-years/
https://www.dpaa.mil/News-Stories/Our-Stories/Article/4331184/dpaa-concludes-record-setting-2025-fiscal-year is another story that tells of the record number of such identifications in its 2025 fiscal year. It takes a variety of organizations and people to reach such a milestone.
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