The
remains of Sgt. Roy Charles DeLauter who went missing while fighting in the
Korean were brought to Washington County on Tuesday evening.
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| Willow Brook Seventh-day Adventist Church |
Sgt.
DeLauter was one of about 2 million strong Americans who served in the Korean
war 1950-53 which stopped the aggression of communist North Korea from taking
over South Korea.
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The soldier was church
member of Willow Brook Seventh-day Adventist Church, Chesapeake Conference,
Columbia Union Conference in the North American Division.
DNA samples from
the remains of Sgt DeLauter were matched with his two sisters including 90-year-old
sister Margaret Carr and found matching, identifying him as her brother.
“The only thing
that we could do was give the blood to see if it matched the DNA and that’s the
only process there was,” Carr said, according to WFMD reports.
She said after
she and her sister gave blood, the family did not hear back for months until
they got the call that it was a match.
Carr was 19 when
her older brother, Roy DeLauter, went missing 71 years ago.
“He was a good
brother. He was a jokester, really. He loved to sing and play his harmonica. We
all had to work when we were kids, I mean, we all worked,” she said.
She explained
that the family always held hope that he was still alive.
DeLauter’s body
was given military and police escort from Baltimore-Washington
International Thurgood Marshall Airport to Rest Haven Funeral Home in
Hagerstown Tuesday evening.
A public
visitation is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. on Friday at Willow Brook Seventh-day
Adventist Church and a funeral will follow at 11:30.
Among the 1,780,000 Americans
who fought in the war, 36,574 were killed in action, 103,284 wounded, and 4,714
taken as prisoners of war, according to Wikipedia.
The United
States is still carrying out DNA examinations as over 7,600 Americans remain
unaccounted-for from the Korean War.
Hundreds of whom
are believed to be in a “non-recoverable” category, meaning that after rigorous
investigation DPAA has determined that the individual perished but does not
believe it is possible to recover the remains
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