"In our own minds we are doing what we would want to be done for ourselves," Eyster says. "I have seen guys break their backs for the idea that we are going to bring this little shred of evidence back home because he is a comrade-in-arms, he is a buddy."
This is from a story that ran first in a three day series in the Boston Globe about the Pentagon's ambitious search for the remains of tens of thousands of missing veterans from World War II. The quote is from Army Maj. Paul Eyster who in May led a team of soldiers - predominantly veterans from campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan - to Papua New Guinea to find the remains of two pilots, Marion R. McCown and Allan S. Harrison III, who's fighter planes went down there in 1944.
What an incredible story.
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