Missing in America honors abandoned veterans' remains

Historic service honors abandoned veterans' remains
By JOHN FRIEDLEIN

jfriedlein@thenewsenterprise.com

After Lisa Hutchings’ father died more than 20 years ago, she assumed the Korean War veteran’s cremated remains were interred for good.

Then about two months ago she received a phone call: Somebody had found the remains.

“I didn’t know they were lost,” she said.

The veteran — along with more than 30 others and some of their wives — received a military burial and service Monday at a Radcliff cemetery. Their ashes had sat neglected for years.

The Missing in America Project recovered the remains from the University of Louisville, which stored them after Eastern Cemetery was charged with violations and targeted by vandals. The remains belong to veterans who served in wars from World War I to the Korean War.
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Historic service honors abandoned veterans remains