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Article: 'You Are Forgotten,' Claims a Veteran of the 79,200 MIAs of WWII
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- U.S. Newswire
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- July 22, 2009
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To: POLITICAL EDITORS
Contact: Leon Cooper, +1-310-457-2832, fax, +1-310-457-2866,
leoncooper@verizon.net ; or Rhonda Rees, +1-818-325-2089,
rhorees1@att.net, for Leon Cooper
MALIBU, Calif., July 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Leon Cooper, a WWII Naval
officer who took part in six battles during his three years in the
Pacific, says the above headline is America's Shame. According to
the Department of Defense, there are currently 88,000 missing and
unknown American military dead from WWII, Korea and Vietnam, with
90% from WWII, 8% from Korea and 2% from Vietnam.
Sadly, each year the Military recovers the remains of only 25
dead per year from all three wars combined. The Department of
Defense estimates ...