MIA's remains weren't found, family learns

[Kadie]

MIA's remains weren't found, family learns
C.W. Nevius

Saturday, August 13, 2005



In May, the U.S. Army gave the two sisters of Special Forces Sgt. Glenn Miller some welcome news. Finally, 37 years after he died in a ferocious battle in the Vietnam War, their brother's remains had been identified. A burial service could be held.

There was just one problem.

It wasn't true.

"They have decided that they want to close these MIA cases out,'' says Marion Miller Alschuler of Orinda. "And they think this is the way to do it.''

snip...
But when Johnny Johnson, a mortician from the Army Human Resources department came to Christy Miller Jackman's home in Sacramento, the Miller sisters tried to pin him down on specifics.

"Did you find a fingernail?'' Alschuler says she asked. "Anything? He finally admitted that they didn't.''


more...
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/08/13/BAGOHE7IPU1.DTL

[madmom]

1. WOW my town just had a memorial service....

for a mia they "found" resently also. Makes you wonder.

[ohio_liberal]

2. This is very disturbing

In May, the U.S. Army gave the two sisters of Special Forces Sgt. Glenn Miller some welcome news. Finally, 37 years after he died in a ferocious battle in the Vietnam War, their brother's remains had been identified. A burial service could be held.

They found his wallet.