The U. S. Army has given two brothers in their 70s a dog tag that had belonged to their father, a Korean War medic who had been missing since 1950. The dog tag came in a shipment of human remains from North Korea. What was the reaction to receiving the
The U. S. Army has given two brothers in their 70s a dog tag that had belonged to their father, a Korean War medic who had been missing since 1950. The dog tag came in a shipment of human remains from North Korea.
Charles McDaniel Jr., now 71, was only 3 years old when his father was reported missing. His brother Larry was a year younger. While Charles says he has vague memories of his father, Larry does not even have those.
Even after all this time, the news was emotional.
“I sat there, and I cried for a while and took a while to compose myself,” Charles Jr. told reporters, referring to the moment when the U. S. Army called him to tell him that his father’s dog tag had been located.
The worn and corroded dog tag reads: “McDANIEL, CHARLES H RA17000585.”
Charles McDaniel was a medic with the 3rd Battalion, 8th Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division. He had been sent to North Korea from his station in Japan. The 3rd Battalion had been cut off from the rest of the American forces by Chinese troops, but managed to hold out for days before they were killed or captured.
