Unidentified remains of U.S. service members are transported

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Members of the U.S. Navy Ceremonial Guard lower the coffin of LCDR James T. Ruffin over the burial site at Arlington National Cemetery. Ruffin was listed as missing-in-action after failing to return from flying a mission off the coast of North Vietnam on Feb. 18, 1966

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An honor guard from Hill Air Force Base carries the casket at the funeral of COL Mark Lane Stephensen, whose RF-4C Phantom II aircraft crashed into a hillside while evading SAM missiles over North Vietnam in 1967. Twenty-one years later, the remains of 27 Americans killed in Southeast Asia, including COL Stephensen's, were repatriated by the government of Vietnam

The American flag draped casket of Medal of Honor recipient, retired US Navy (USN) Vice Admiral (VADM) James B. Stockdale, carried from the US Naval Academy Chapel by the ceremonial guard. Friends, family members and shipmates gathered to attend the funeral service for the former Naval Aviator, Vietnam prisoner of war (POW), test pilot, academic and Medal of Honor recipient who died July 5, at the age of 81. He was a member of the US Naval Academy Class of 1947

The casket of Medal of Honor recipient, retired Vice Adm. James B. Stockdale, is carried from the U.S. Naval Academy Chapel by the ceremonial guard.

Unidentified remains of U.S. service members are transported

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Unidentified remains of U.S. service members are transported during a disinterment ceremony held at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, Hawaii, Jan. 11, 2021. The ceremony was part of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency’s (DPAA) efforts to disinter the remains of unknown service members lost during the Korean War. DPAA's mission is to provide the fullest possible accounting of missing personnel to their families and the nation. (U.S. Army photo illustration by Sgt. Devone Collins)

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