Capt. Michael Speicher's remains found

Deo gratias. From Fox News:

Remains of the first American lost in the 1991 Persian Gulf War have been found in the Anbar province of Iraq after a nearly 20-year search, the U.S. Navy said Sunday.

The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology has positively identified the remains of Captain Michael "Scott" Speicher, whose disappearance has bedeviled investigators since his jet was shot down over the Iraq desert on the first night of the 1991 war.

The Navy said the discovery illustrates the military's commitment to bring its troops home.

"This is a testament to how the Navy never stops looking for one of its own. No matter how long it takes," Commander Cappy Surette, a spokesman for the U.S. Navy, told FOX News.

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"The family's proud of the way the Defense Department continued on with our request" to not abandon the search, she said. "We will be bringing him home."

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Hat tip to reader Abe who comments:

The Bedouins who found him deserve some credit for burying him instead of turning over his remains to Saddam. I've been praying for a better accounting of all our war dead and missing in action for 30 years now and I added Capt Speicher as a specific mention when he went missing in 91.

Loyalty, persistence, prayer. Way to go.

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