For sixty years, Jorja Elliott-Reyburn has lived without a clear idea of what happened to her father, a U.S. soldier who disappeared during the Korean War.
But no month has been as difficult for the 65-year-old Ms. Elliott-Reyburn as this July.
As officials in Washington and Seoul commemorated the 60th anniversary of the armistice that ended hostilities in 1953, and as North Korea staged a lavish â??victory celebration,â? Ms. Elliott-Reyburn was busy getting ready to confront the Pentagon with documents and questions about what happened to her father, James H. Elliott.
During the desperate battle for control of the so-called Pusan Perimeter, Mr. Elliott went out on patrol one night in August 1950 and never came back. U.S. military documents say that he may have died in 1951 in a prisoner-of-war camp.
But one of the battlefield captainâ??s logbooks reports that Mr. Elliottâ??s body was retrieved from the battlefield the day after he disappeared in August 1950 â?? a scenario that Ms. Elliott-Reyburn says has been borne out by testimony from two soldiers who were there.
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