I received this today. I know nothing at all about any of these sights or the service discussed, but thought I would pass it along as there are some names from Polk and Bradley County, TN. If you recognize any names, please proceed with caution. Cathy -----Original Message----- From: Harold Keisling [mailto:halsheritage@tnaccess.com] Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 4:43 PM To: bradley@tngenweb.org Subject: Korean War MIAs need your help The Army has some unidentified remains of service members from North Korea. Since DNA data was unknown in the 1950s there was no profile on these personnel. The Army can now conduct DNA on the remains, but they have an incomplete databse of DNA form family close family members with which to compare. There are several on the list for the state of Tennessee and some may be from your county. Please look at the list and see if any from you county are annotated with needing DNA "Yes". If find one, look under DNA and see what relative is acceptable. Then find a relative in your area that meets this criterion and send their name, address or phone number to the following contact at Department of the Army. There is not guarentee that the missing service member from your county will be found, but thru DNA testing the Army can confirm or eliminate him as a name for the remains that they have. This is an important service that we can provide to our fellow citizens. We owe this much to our service members who made the ultimate sacrifice in the service of their country and in the name of freedom. Let us resolve to get all of these needed DNA for our state submitted. Steps to follow: 1. Look at the state List and find people from your county 2. copy and paste the service member data 5. Go to DNA database below and see if they need DNA, if not then the Army has what data they need. If they need DNA then you need to find a good DNA source. 6. Look under DNA on one of the pages and it will tell you what is acceptable. 7. Develop a list of siblings, offsprings etc with addresses/phone number and send them to the e-mail address or call them into the 1-800 number. 8. The Army has its own procedure for following up and getting the DNA samples. PMKOR Data by name search: http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo/pmkor/files.htm Tennessee Data, select ASCII and then open in place: http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo/pmkor/statefiles.htm?State=tn&Name=Tennessee <http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo/pmkor/statefiles.htm?State=tn&Name=Tennessee> Korean DB search by name DNA needed: http://www.koreanwar.org/html/korean_war_databases.html Send you data to this address or call the 800 number that is listed on the database. To: tapcper@hoffman.army.mil <mailto:tapcper@hoffman.army.mil> Subject: Re:Korean War Missing, Members Name & Key Number Cathy Hall Email: cat5hall@email.msn.com ASC TNGenWeb TNGenWeb: http://www.tngenweb.org/ Polk County: http://www.tngenweb.org <http://www.tngenweb.org/> Bradley County: http://www.tngenweb.org/bradley Personal Page: http://msnhomepages.talkcity.com/PicnicPl/cat5hall/