“It’s closure,” she said. “After all these years, now we know.”Remains of soldier come home after 57 years
By Dave Kolpack - The Associated Press
Posted : Sunday Mar 9, 2008 8:36:18 EDT
WAHPETON, N.D. — Fifty-seven years after Pvt. Joseph Meyer Jr. disappeared while fighting in the Korean War, the Army has told his family his remains will be coming home.
Meyer was 17 when he left Wahpeton to enlist in the Army. He was declared missing in action in 1950, with few clues offered to his family.
His sisters remember their red-haired, freckle-faced brother as straight-laced and well-liked. He liked to play football, but decided to enlist in the Army rather than stay in school.
About 10 years ago, two of his sisters submitted DNA samples to the Army.
“I didn’t think it would do any good,” said one of the sisters, Alice Pausch. “At that point, I had lost hope already.”
They heard little until Alice and her husband, Virgil, received a phone message at their farm home southwest of Wahpeton last week saying the Army had information for them.
They learned Meyer’s remains were found with no identification in a mass grave in North Korea.
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