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Their names — veterans spanning the Civil War to the Vietnam War — echoed through the nave in a long overdue tribute. Until now, the remains of 20 veterans and five spouses were unclaimed.
Airman apprentice Donald Brown and fireman David Dickson, both United States Navy veterans who served during the Vietnam war died recently and neither had a family member to claim their remains.
The Missing in America Project, a nonprofit founded in 2007, locates, identifies and inters the unclaimed remains of American veterans. Of the 20 veterans buried April 25, all of whom died in ...
For several decades, the cremated remains of more than two dozen American Civil War veterans languished in storage facilities at a funeral home and cemetery in Seattle. The simple copper and ...
In 2008, then-veterans Commissioner Linda Schwartz joined the Connecticut Funeral Directors Association and the state chapter of the Missing in America Project to identify veterans’ remains.
Missing in action; remains recovered in 1999 and identified in 2003 [130] October 19: Worcester, John B: Lieutenant (LTJG) US Navy: VA-195, USS Bon Homme Richard: Operation Rolling Thunder: North Vietnam, Nghệ An Province: His A-4C disappeared on a ground attack mission [131] Presumptive finding of death [3] October 22: Mann, Robert L ...
Pilot of an A-6A #155709 shot down. The remains of the weapons system operator Captain David B. Williams were returned in 1989 [53] Presumptive finding of death [3] May 6: Wiles, Marvin B: Lieutenant: US Navy: VA-22, USS Coral Sea: Operation Freedom Train: North Vietnam: His A-7E was hit by an SA-2 while attacking a SAM site, ejected ...
The United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims is commonly referred to as the Veterans Court, USCAVC, or simply CAVC. The court was previously known as the United States Court of Veterans Appeals, but was changed to the current name by the Veterans Programs Enhancement Act on March 1, 1999 (Pub.L. No. 105-368). [3]