Ongoing efforts to account for the thousands of soldiers killed during the Korean War is providing some closure to the surviving family of a Black man from Baton Rouge a little more than 70 years after he went missing.
The U.S. Army Casualty and Mortuary Affairs Division recently announced that the remains of Army Cpl. Lawrence L. Brown have been accounted for. Brown died when he was 21 and was first reported missing in 1951, according to contemporaneous news articles.
He didn't appear on the Army's Death List until March 1954, according to other published reports.
