Seven decades later, remains of soldier lost in Korean War returned home
Jason Nark, The Philadelphia Inquirer via the AP
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — When Walter Wilkins roots through his memories, the decades between boyhood and old age, one lasting image of his older brother appears. He sees Paul walking away, up a mountain road in rural Pennsylvania.
Walter, 86, doesn’t remember if that’s the day Paul left Bellwood, Blair County, to go fight in the forgotten war in Korea. He can’t recall if Paul said goodbye to the siblings with whom he shared a shanty and raised hell in those hills. But Walter never saw his brother again, so the memory’s framed, forever, in his mind.
“He was beautiful,” Walter said in a diner just outside Buffalo in May. “Just beautiful.”
https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2021/07/31/seven-decades-later-remains-of-soldier-lost-in-korean-war-returned-home/
