Yellow PagesSep 8, 2007
Return of warriors' remains may be just a couple of swabs away
“But now, the idea that maybe we might have possession of my father's remains, that he'd be here with his family ... that would be awesome!
'Thirty-nine years. ... We'll have to wait a little longer.”
At 73, he still aches for his twin brother. He remembers him every time he hears about another military death.
Missing in action. Possibly drowned in Vietnam. That's all Warren Patton really knows. His brother's body was never found.
But Sept. 1 as he read The Kansas City Star in Greeley, Kan., he saw a name -- Ward K. Patton -- on a list of MIAs. The military was looking for the next of kin of 28 missing service members from Kansas and Missouri.
His hands started shaking. Could it be? Read more
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