Thousands of WWII MIAs

Congressman Lipinski of Illinois has sent a letter to each of his colleagues in the House of Representatives urging them to support his request of the Department of Defense to greatly increase the recovery of the remains of WWII MIAs, tens of thousands of whom still lie where they fell, in unmarked graves, --in Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Okinawa, the Palaus, the Marianas--during the Pacific  War. Please write or phone your Congressman, telling him/her to support Lipinski. Time is of the essence.  The relatives of these dead, eg., the wives, brothers, sisters, nephews et al, will themselves be dead before long. Who will then claim the remains of these honored dead?
NB The Department of Defense recovers about 100 MIAs per year from all US wars, Korea, Vietnam and WWII, although WWII is more than 90%  of the total number of MIAs (90,000)  Doesn't that make you angry? Don't you want to do something about this disgrace?

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[Gary Zaetz]

As the nephew of USAAF 1st Lt. Irwin Zaetz, a World War II MIA who perished along with the rest of his B-24 "Hot as Hell" crew over the Himalayas, I couldn't agree more with Leon Cooper's demand for significantly increased funding for MIA recoveries, especially from the World War II era, since they account for the vast majority of all our MIAs. The FY2010 NDAA mandated tripling the rate of MIA recovery by 2015, but the funds needed to begin this acceleration were not appropriated. Congressman Dan Lipinski should be commended for spearheading the effort to get this done in the FY2011 defense budget.