NEWS RELEASES from the United States Department of Defense
No. 805-06 IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 23, 2006
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Missing World War II Airmen Identified
The Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) today announced three airmen missing in action from World War II have been identified and are being returned to their families for burial with full military honors. They are 2nd Lt. David J. Nelson, Chicago, Ill.; Tech. Sgt. Henry F. Kortebein, Maspeth, N.Y.; and Tech. Sgt. Blake A. Treece Jr., Marshall, Ark., all U.S. Army Air Forces. These men are to be buried along with group remains of their aircrew at Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, D.C. on Thursday.
Representatives from the Army met with the next-of-kin of these men in their hometowns on behalf of the Secretary of the Army to explain the recovery and identification process and to coordinate interment with military honors.
On August 8, 1944, Nelson, Kortebein and Treece departed an allied air base in England in their B-17G Flying Fortress with six other crewmen aboard. Their mission was to bomb enemy targets near Caen, France. The aircraft was seen to explode and crash after being struck by enemy flak near the village of Lonlay l'Abbaye, south of Caen. The other six members of the crew were 1st Lt. Jack R. Thompson; 2nd Lts. Charles Bacigalupa and Charles Sherrill; and Sgts. Richard R. Collins, Gerald F. Gillies and Warren D. Godsey. The hometowns of these six are not available.
German forces and French villagers living near the crash site recovered some of the remains of the crew and buried them nearby. Advancing U.S. forces found additional remains. Six of the nine crewmen ultimately were identified, but Nelson, Kortebein and Treece remained unaccounted for.
In August 2002, a team from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) operating in Luxembourg was informed that a local French aircraft wreckage hunting group (Association Normande du Souvenir Aerien 39/45) had located a crash site near Lonlay l'Abbaye. The JPAC team surveyed the site, excavated it in July 2004 and recovered human remains, personal effects and crew-related materials from amid the wreckage. Also found were six unexploded 250-pound bombs.
Later that year, a French explosive ordnance disposal team turned over a bone fragment to the U. S. Defense Attache in Paris. It was found by French technicians working to secure the site where the bombs had been found.
Among other forensic identification tools, scientists from JPAC and the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory also used mitochondrial DNA in the identification of the remains of the three, matching DNA sequences from maternal relatives.
For additional information on the Defense Department's mission to account for missing Americans, visit the DPMO Web site at http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo/or call (703) 699-1169.
THANK YOU, MEN. JOB WELL DONE.
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Monday, August 28, 2006
MAINSTREAM TV ONCE AGAIN FAUXS ITS PAS
The report of a tragic plane crash in Lexington, Kentucky, early Sunday morning was on the news wires most of the day. I prayed for the souls of the passengers and the pilot who perished, and for their families. (Only one person survived, identified later as the co-pilot, who was pulled from the wreckage moments before the entire aircraft burst into flames.)
Last night, I began watching the 58th Emmy Awards Show last night, mostly for the glitter and twitter of the celebrities. I'd heard Conan O'Brien would be the host and so I expected some fun moments, since I consider him to be a funny man...usually. Unfortunately, the opening sequence hit me like a trainload of chipped ice.
In view of the loss of lives in that plane crash earlier Sunday, I believe the network and the producers of the Emmys could have--should have--exercised restraint and respect, or at least common sense, and scrapped the plane crash parody at the opening of the show and gone straight to the awards ceremony. But then, the heel of my hand went upside my forehead, reminding me, "Duh! This is mainstream media!"
I always think there is little that could surprise me anymore at this stage in my life. The MSM proves me wrong every day. Their blatant unbalanced reporting, such as, most recently, their coverage and broadcasts of the battle between Israel and Hezbollah. As far as I could determine, only approximately 5% of the reporting showed Israeli casualties. The other 95% of reporting showed Lebanese civilians and some Hezbollah fighters, or persons posing as Hezbollah fighters.
Last night, the MSM seemingly took a quantum leap into utter disregard. I'm certain no one at that network truly understands the meaning of "plain decency."
On the basis of what I see and hear on a daily basis, it is clear that the mainstream media suffer from an extremely limited range of human emotions. I say "human emotions" because (correct me if I'm wrong), as far as I can tell it is humans who are in charge of the major broadcast networks. Only these humans lack compassion and empathy. They push the outside of the envelope too far too many times, and last night, in my opinion, they went straight over the edge.
Last night, I began watching the 58th Emmy Awards Show last night, mostly for the glitter and twitter of the celebrities. I'd heard Conan O'Brien would be the host and so I expected some fun moments, since I consider him to be a funny man...usually. Unfortunately, the opening sequence hit me like a trainload of chipped ice.
In view of the loss of lives in that plane crash earlier Sunday, I believe the network and the producers of the Emmys could have--should have--exercised restraint and respect, or at least common sense, and scrapped the plane crash parody at the opening of the show and gone straight to the awards ceremony. But then, the heel of my hand went upside my forehead, reminding me, "Duh! This is mainstream media!"
I always think there is little that could surprise me anymore at this stage in my life. The MSM proves me wrong every day. Their blatant unbalanced reporting, such as, most recently, their coverage and broadcasts of the battle between Israel and Hezbollah. As far as I could determine, only approximately 5% of the reporting showed Israeli casualties. The other 95% of reporting showed Lebanese civilians and some Hezbollah fighters, or persons posing as Hezbollah fighters.
Last night, the MSM seemingly took a quantum leap into utter disregard. I'm certain no one at that network truly understands the meaning of "plain decency."
On the basis of what I see and hear on a daily basis, it is clear that the mainstream media suffer from an extremely limited range of human emotions. I say "human emotions" because (correct me if I'm wrong), as far as I can tell it is humans who are in charge of the major broadcast networks. Only these humans lack compassion and empathy. They push the outside of the envelope too far too many times, and last night, in my opinion, they went straight over the edge.
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