90 Day Wonder

Katie Couric to interview Leon Cooper on Labor Day

Seventy years ago thousands of Americans were killed or wounded during the battle of "Bloody Tarawa" in November, 1943. Finally, the remains of the dead will be found, identify and returned home. My film.  "Return to Tarawa -the Leon Cooper Story" was seen by Congress,resulting in direction to the Defense Department to  send a team to Tarawa--now at work.

BETTER LATE THAN NEVER--Right?

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?