Remains of U.S. soldier killed in Korean War laid to rest
Fern Sumpter Winbush (C), principal deputy director for the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, embraces Judy Wade, niece of late U.S. Cpl. Luther H. Story, killed in the 1950-53 Korean War and posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor, during the burial of Story's remains at Andersonville National Cemetery in Georgia on May 29, 2023. The remains, discovered at a site in Changnyeong, 264 kilometers southeast of Seoul, in 2018, have been identified as his by the U.S. agency. The burial was followed by the adoption in April of a joint statement on the identification of the late soldier by South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and his U.S. counterpart, Joe Biden. (Yonhap)
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