Family News Updates:
Accountability of Missing Americans from Korean War:
I.O. Lee - DPMO as of 03-26-1996 (PDF)
American POW/MIAs in North Korean Hands: June 30, 2008
Questions Pyongyang Must Answer (PDF)
Korea-Cold War Families Support Norman Kass for DPMO DASD - January 2006
Jennings Resigns - December 2005
Faith and Hope - Summer 2005
19th Plenum Canceled - Read
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US-Russia
Archival Conference April 2004- Jim Connell - Presentation
Society
of the Honor Guard of the Tomb - Wonderful
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The
866 Unknowns - by
Irene Mandra
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For special people who are no longer with us- Wall
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Heroes...
Several new Heroes have been added by their loved ones - Heroes
MAPS...
Camp Map, Remains Concentration Map & March Routes - Maps
November 19th, 2004 - U.S., North Korea agree on 10th
year of missions to recover American MIAs. U.S. and North Korean officials
agreed Thursday to conduct recovery missions for remains of American servicemen
missing from the Korean War for a 10th consecutive year. The missions,
in which personnel from the United States carry out search operations
in the communist state, are a rare example of cooperation between the
two nations, which have been at odds over North Korea’s nuclear
weapons program. The plans for 2005, set in two days of talks in Bangkok
led by Jerry D. Jennings, deputy assistant secretary of defense for POW/MIA
affairs, call for U.S. excavation teams to work in two areas in North
Korea where more than 2,000 soldiers and Marines disappeared.
November 9th, 2004 - Talks with North Korea on 2005
MIA recovery efforts start next week. U.S. and North Korean representatives
will meet in Thailand to negotiate next year’s remains recovery
missions, officials said. Radio Free Asia, the U.S.-funded radio network,
reported that top officials from the Joint POW-MIA Accounting Command
(JPAC) want to build on the success of 2004’s five joint missions.
November 6th, 2004 -GI Pleads Guilty to Deserting to
North Korea. An American GI pleaded guilty at a U.S. court martial in
Japan Wednesday of defecting to North Korea four decades ago and "aiding
the enemy" by teaching English to North Koreans. Charles Jenkins
pleaded not guilty to charges of encouraging disloyalty and soliciting
other U.S. military personnel to desert. He will be sentenced at a later
date. Jenkins, a U.S. Army sergeant, disappeared during a routine patrol
in January 1965 while serving along the demilitarized zone (DMZ) separating
the two Koreas. Jenkins' fate remained the subject of speculation for
39 years until he emerged from the isolated Stalinist state last July
and, after a brief stay in Indonesia, flew to Japan for medical treatment
relating to abdominal surgery he underwent earlier in North Korea. There
has been much speculation in Japan that Jenkins has sought a plea bargain,
perhaps agreeing to plead guilty and cooperate in return for a lighter
sentence. That cooperation could include passing on information dealing
with the long-rumored possibility that U.S. prisoners of war (POWs) are
still alive in North Korea.
November 5th, 2004
- Charles Jenkins pleaded guilty to desertion. Jenkins, a U.S. Army sergeant,
disappeared during a routine patrol in January 1965 while serving along
the demilitarized zone (DMZ) separating the two Koreas. Jenkins' fate
remained the subject of speculation for 39 years until he emerged from
the isolated Stalinist state last July and, after a brief stay in Indonesia,
flew to Japan for medical treatment relating to abdominal surgery he underwent
earlier in North Korea. There has been much speculation in Japan that
Jenkins has sought a plea bargain, perhaps agreeing to plead guilty and
cooperate in return for a lighter sentence. That cooperation could
include passing on information dealing with the long-rumored possibility
that U.S. prisoners of war (POWs) are still alive in North Korea. The
Defense Department's POW/MIA Affairs Office said several years ago that
it had been seeking access to a small group of U.S. defectors, known or
suspected to be in North Korea, to find out what they knew about the possibility
of POWs.
October 22, 2004
- Teddy Lilly is identified and laid to rest. The 22-year-old soldier
was reported killed more than 54 years ago in one of the bloodiest battles
of the Korean War. But it wasn't until Thursday that his remains were
laid to rest among his family in his home town. "I had given up hope,"
said Alma Hodes, who married Lilly about five weeks before he was sent
to Korea. "But deep in your heart, you always wonder." The remains
of 2nd Lt. Edmund "Teddy" Lilly III were recovered in South
Korea and buried in Hawaii, but identified only this summer through DNA
testing. His funeral was held Thursday at St. John's Episcopal Church,
where he once served as an acolyte.
October 16, 2004
- Pyongyang Repatriates Remains. SEOUL - Remains believed to be those
of American soldiers missing from the Korean War were honoured yesterday
after being turned over from North Korea. UN guards carrying the coffins
with the remains of the US soldiers in a ceremony in Seoul. -- AFP
Pyongyang's move came half a century after the 1950 conflict. At
a ceremony at the US 8th Army headquarters in Seoul, attended by hundreds
of senior US and South Korean officers, four metal coffins draped with
blue United Nations flags were loaded on to black hearses. A military
marching band paraded and a gun salute boomed during the ceremony. 'This
is a solemn and bittersweet occasion to bring our fallen heroes one step
closer to their home and families,' said Major-General Montague Winfield,
commander of the Joint PoW Accounting Command, which seeks to recover
remains of dead soldiers. It was unclear how many sets of remains were
held in the four coffins, officials said. The remains will be flown to
a military laboratory in Hawaii for identification. -- AP
October 13, 2004
- A Burnt Prairie native missing in action during the Korean War 54 years
ago will be laid to rest Saturday in Fairfield. Department of Defense
officials located the remains of Sgt. Carl "Buddy" Sheraden
in late 2002, WFIW Radio in Fairfield reported. After positive identification
was made, his remains were returned to the family for a re-interment ceremony.
Sheraden, who was 29, went missing in action Nov. 27, 1950 in heavy combat
near a Korean reservoir. He was a member of the 32nd Infantry Regiment
of the Seventh Infantry Division, the station said. Residents of the reservoir
area directed a team of searchers from Hickman Air Force Base in Hawaii
to several shallow graves more than two years ago, and the remains of
several American soldiers were discovered. Forensic tests completed in
2002 confirmed Sheraden's identity.
October 13, 2004
- YONGSAN GARRISON, South Korea - Remains unearthed during the fifth and
final joint recovery mission this year to North Korea will be repatriated
Friday at a Yongsan Garrison ceremony, officials said Tuesday. An indeterminate
number of remains believed to be those of U.S. soldiers missing in action
from the Korean War will be honored at the ceremony before being flown
to a military lab in Hawaii for identification, officials said.
October 9, 2004 -
Remains believed to be those of American soldiers missing in action (MIA)
from the Korean War (1950-1953) have been recovered by two teams of US
specialists, the Pentagon announced on Friday. The remains will be repatriated
overland across the demilitarized zone to US control at Yongsan Military
Compound in Seoul on Oct. 15, and later will be flown to Hickam Air Force
Base,Hawaii, the Pentagon said. The precise number will be determined
in follow-on forensic examinations. The repatriation marks the fifth and
final remains recovery operation in the Democratic People's Republic of
Korea (DPRK) this year.
October 4, 2004 -
SEOUL, Korea (South) -- A 76-year-old South Korean former soldier has
escaped from North Korea after being held for more than half a century
as a prisoner of war, the Yonhap news agency reported Sunday. The former
soldier, known only by his family name Lee, arrived at a South Korean
diplomatic office in China on Friday after escaping from the North, Yonhap
said, citing the Families of the Abducted and Detained in North Korea,
an association for people abducted by Pyongyang. Lee was from Daegu, 300
kilometers (190 miles) southeast of the South Korean capital Seoul, where
he still has a brother, the report said. Lee was captured by North Korean
troops in 1951 during the 1950-53 Korean War. He worked down mines for
20 years in the North before moving to work at a cultural center in Sariwon
city, capital of North Hwanghae province, it said. After 53 years in the
North, Lee started his bid for freedom by leaving the city in August and
successfully crossing the border to China early last month, Yonghap said.
US-Russia
Archival Conference April 2004 - Overview
U.S. - Russia Archival Conference
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
April 13-15, 2004 Schedule
of Topics
US-Russia
Archival Conference April 2004- Danz Blasser - Presentation
US-Russia
Archival Conference April 2004- Jim Connell - Presentation
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