Miscellaneous costs of empire

Carl Remick carlremick at hotmail.com
Tue Jan 14 19:58:14 PST 2003


Tonight the PBS NOVA series aired a show, "Last Flight of Bomber 31," about attempts to retrieve remains from a US Navy bomber that crash landed on the Kamchatka Peninsula in 1944. The web site for this program includes this remarkable factoid: "The United States wants its dead back so fiercely that it spends more than $100 million a year trying to find and retrieve them as well as identify them and give them a proper burial with full military honors. Nearly 600 military and civilian personnel work full-time on the POW/MIA effort. Their task is staggering, as the combined total of U.S. service personnel from World War II to the present listed either as 'missing in action' or 'killed in action, body not recovered' exceeds 88,000."

<http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bomber/mias.html>

Carl

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