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Failing the Fallen

Recovering Our Vets

Investigating the Pentagon’s failing efforts to timely recover and ID those missing in action from World War II, Korea and Vietnam.

10 stories published since 2014

Pentagon Finally Identifies the Remains of a POW Lost Since 1942

by Megan Rose,

Pentagon Report Finds Litany of Problems with Effort to Recover MIAs

by Megan Rose,

Pentagon Finally Decides to Dig Up Remains of Long Lost Soldier

by Megan Rose,

Big Revamp of Pentagon's Troubled Mission to Find Missing Soldiers Looks a Lot Like Old Revamp

by Megan Rose,

Pentagon Overhauls Effort to Identify its Missing

by Megan Rose,

French, Germans Return Fallen GI After Pentagon Gives Up

by Megan Rose,

Four Ways to Really Fix the Pentagon’s Effort to ID the Missing

by Megan Rose,

Interview: How You Can Help Find an MIA

by Megan Rose,

Bud’s Story, from the Records

by Megan Rose and Sisi Wei,

The Military is Leaving the Missing Behind

Megan Rose,

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