Remains Returned
Includes:
Vietnam Conflict
Mayaguez
Glomar Java Sea
Bay of Pigs

WWII/Korean/Cold War remains returned

REMAINS

I  hate the sound
the word in my ears
hate the meaning
the connotation
of pain and tears -
I hate the word
“Remains”.
Bits of bone
and shreds of cloth;
perhaps a piece of plane
physical remnants
of someone’s life -
“Beloved” was
his name;
Someone brave who died
amid the chaos
and the flames
someone young
someone strong
he is not
“remains”.

… and though he slumbers far away
he lives on in someone’s heart
as real today as yesterday
though they’ve been long apart…
he smiles out of
yearbooks
and grins from
picture frames
Oh, he is so much
more to her
than a simple word
“Remains”

©Christina

Some of these announced identification have been disputed or rejected ( * ) by family members. 
Even when I.D.s are officially rescinded (+), names remain on this list forever.
Group Burials (~)are noted.
Category 5 Remains (#) were considered UNRECOVERABLE.

P.O.W. NETWORK NOTES:

As of 01/25/10

 AMERICANS ANNOUNCED AS ACCOUNTED FOR:  There are 1,720 US personnel still listed by the Defense POW/MIA Office (DPMO) as missing and unaccounted for from the Vietnam War;  [DoD]

Still others have been ID’d, not yet announced by DPMO, perhaps due to delays in scheduling ID consultations with the primary-next-of-kin (PNOK).  The reality is that PNOK no longer retain decision-making capability before official ID, but the pretense has been retained.     

Due to circumstances as noted below - we question the validity of ANY of the numbers.

Some of these announced identification have been disputed or rejected (*) by family members. 

Even when I.D.s are officially recinded (+), names remain on this list forever.
Group Burials (~)are noted.
Category 5 Remains (#) were considered UNRECOVERABLE.

<I.D. DISPUTED 02/76, not listed by the USG - Robert Lee Luster>

** NOT LISTED BY USG when posted - Announced by family, not DoD

// - Remains were identified in 2000 - family did not receive remains for burial until 10/2003

[#] These individuals were "CATEGORY 5"

Categories of Degrees of Information
Enemy knowledge of POW/MIA

Category 5, Category unrelated to degree of enemy knowledge.

A. Individuals whose remains have been determined to be non-recoverable as outlined in Department of the Army Technical Manual 10-286, January 1964, section 39.

Category Data from Defense Intelligence Agency
January 20, 1982

AMERICANS IDENTIFIED SINCE 1994
WWII, KOREA, COLD WAR

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