Sons Get ‘Certitude’ After Receiving Their Missing Father’s Korean War Dog Tag
8/12/18
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from NPR,
8/8/18:
It’s difficult to know exactly what happened to Master Sgt. Charles Hobert McDaniel after U.S. Army forces were attacked by small groups of Chinese communist soldiers during the early days of the Korean War in November 1950.
But on Wednesday McDaniel’s sons — both toddlers when he disappeared — got something they’ve been missing for 68 years: “certitude.”
Charles McDaniel, Jr., and his younger brother Larry McDaniel were presented with their father’s ID tag by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency at a ceremony in Arlington, Va.
After decades of ambiguity, “We have certitude,” the elder McDaniel, a former Army chaplain, told reporters.
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