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One from World War I. One from World War II, and one from the Korean War. But it used to be four. Here to tell the story of the identified unknown soldier is Craig Dumais. of the Grateful Nation Project.
Let's get into the story. On the morning of May 11, 1972, 1st Lieutenant Blassey took off from the Benh Hoa Air Base in South Vietnam in his Dragonfly A37. Just four months after arriving in Vietnam, he'd already flown 137 combat missions. On this day he was targeting an enemy artillery position outside of Anlock. sixty miles north of Saigon.
Uh Blassey graduated from high school in Florescent, Missouri in 1966. He trained as a pilot and qualified to fly the Cessna A37 Dragonfly, a small, light, jet-powered attack aircraft nicknamed the Super Tweet. These planes were relatively inexpensive, and because they could fly low and slow, they could deliver firepower more accurately than heavier conventional bombers. That accuracy. came at a price.
The dragonfly was also more vulnerable to enemy ground fire. Blassy's Flight Commander Major James Connolly described the attack in a letter to Blassy's parents. Mike's aircraft was hit. and began streaming fuel. He must have been killed instantly because he did not transmit a distress call of any kind.
The aircraft flew a short distance on its own and then slowly rolled over, exploding on impact in enemy health territory. Mike Blassey, aged twenty four. was declared killed in action. One of the consequences of warfare has been large numbers of unidentified dead.
Sometimes unidentified remains resulted from poor record keeping. The damage that weapons of war inflicted on bodies, or the haste required to bury the dead and mark gravesites in a battlefield environment. While exact numbers are unattainable, estimates indicate that nearly half of the Civil War dead were never identified. Unidentified remains were often buried in mass graves, but in December 1920, New York Congressman and World War I veteran Hamilton Fish Jr. proposed legislation providing for the internment of one unknown American soldier at a special tomb to be built in Arlington National Cemetery.
The purpose of the legislation was, quote. Bring home the body of an unknown American warrior who in himself represents no section, creed, or race in the late war, and who typifies, moreover, the soul of America and the supreme sacrifice of her heroic dead. On November 11, 1921, a horse-drawn caisson carried the remains of an unknown soldier through Washington, D.C. and over the Potomac River to Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. The inscription on the west side of the tomb sarcophagus reads Here rests in honored glory an American soldier known but to God.
Following World War II.
Some Americans supported the idea of interring and honoring an unknown from that war. In august nineteen fifty six, President Dwight D. Eisenhower approved the selection and internment of unknowns from both World War two and Korea. Before the Vietnam War ended, Arlington National Cemetery made preparations to add a third crypt. On Memorial Day, may twenty eighth, nineteen eighty four, remains designated X twenty six were interred as the Vietnam Unknown in a ceremony at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
in Arlington National Cemetery. The Unknown Soldier. whose return to us today and whom we lay to rest is symbolic of all our missing sons. About him we may well wonder as Others have. Did he play on some street in a great American city?
Or did he work beside his father on a farm out in America's heartland? Did he marry? Did he have children? Did he look expectantly to return? To a bride.
We'll never know the answers to these questions about his life. We do know though Why he died. He saw the horrors of war. I bravely faced them. Certain his own cause and his country's cause was a noble one.
that he was fighting for human dignity. for free men everywhere.
However, at that time, many people believed that advances in technology would mean that all remains from Vietnam could eventually be identified. This brings us to Vietnam Air Force pilot Michael Joseph Blassey. In the early 1990s, reports began to surface that the Vietnam unknown could possibly be the fallen pilot. Mike Blassey's family was not informed that the crash site had been accessed or that remains were recovered. The Allied South Vietnamese Army recovered Blassey's personal belongings and six bone fragments.
All were sent to the Saigon Mortuary and finally to Hawaii's Central Identification Laboratory. With Blassey's remains being separated from the personal belongings and other items from the crash site, a series of mistakes and flawed procedures led to his remains being reclassified as designated unknown. and stored at the Central Identification Laboratory in a file with the label X26. The Blessy family visited the tomb in the following years, unaware that their son and brother was buried there. After years of political and media pressure from the Blassey family, In the middle of the night soldiers of the old guard stood watch and blocked the view, the Vietnam unknown, would be disinterred.
and DNA tested. DNA test results confirmed a perfect match with Michael Blassey's older sister Judy. Twenty-six years after his dragonfly was shot down, First Lieutenant Michael Joseph Blassey's remains were returned to his family in Saint Louis. where he was laid to rest at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery. As of today the crypt that once held the remains of the Vietnam War unknown.
is empty. The slab over that crypt has been replaced, changing the Vietnam War inscription. It now reads honoring and keeping faith with America's missing servicemen. A reminder of the commitment of the United States Armed Forces to the fullest possible accounting. for our missing heroes.
And a terrific job in the production, editing, and storytelling by our own Monty Montgomery. And a special thanks to Craig Dumae. of the Grateful Nation Project. to find out more about the great work they do. Go to herocards.us.
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And the next thing you know, he's flying the Super Tweet. The dragonfly low and slow which of course led to his untimely and tragic death. the age of 24, killed in action. and then all the work of the family to find out. What they found out.
The story of the tomb of the unknown soldier's known soldier. And that would be Lieutenant Blassey, first Lieutenant Blassie. Here on Our American Stories. There's nothing like sinking into luxury. Anabae sofas combine ultimate comfort and design at an affordable price.
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