<DIV>That could have been a neat article if it wasn't so horribly written.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Best Regards,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Donovan<BR><BR><B><I>Tom Hansen <thansen@moscow.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">>From today's (February 13, 2008) Spokesman Review -<BR><BR>"Also killed in that crash was John M. Mortenson, 25, of Moscow, Idaho."<BR><BR>---------------------------------------------------------<BR><BR>WWII-era crash victim identified <BR>Bill Morlin <BR>Staff writer<BR>February 13, 2008<BR><BR>A body linked to a 66-year-old World War II mystery has been identified as <BR>that of an airman from Ohio, his family confirmed Tuesday.<BR><BR>Ernest "Glenn" Munn was 23 when he died in a military plane crash on the <BR>Mendel Glacier near the 13,830-foot summit of Mount Darwin in California's <BR>rugged Sierra Nevada mountains. <BR><BR>Also
killed in that crash was John M. Mortenson, 25, of Moscow, Idaho.<BR><BR>When the mummified remains were found last August by Seattle author Peter <BR>Stekel, it was not known if the body was that of Munn or Mortensen. Both <BR>wore aviation cadet uniforms.<BR><BR>Mortensen's remains and those of 2nd Lt. William A. Gamber, the pilot, <BR>still have not been located. The body of air cadet Leo Mustonen was found <BR>on the glacier in October 2005.<BR><BR>The three young U.S. Army Air Force aviation cadets and the pilot were <BR>aboard an AT-7 Navigator that crashed during a snowstorm on Nov. 18, 1942, <BR>near the California-Nevada border.<BR><BR>The body Stekel found last summer had been entombed in the glacier but <BR>became partially exposed because of a significant snowmelt during last <BR>year's drought in California. A search of the area turned up metal debris, <BR>believed to be parts of the aircraft.<BR><BR>The remains were taken to the Joint POW/MIA Accounting
Command's forensic <BR>laboratory – called JPAC – at Hickam Air Force Base in Oahu, Hawaii. JPAC <BR>officials have not released a formal statement about the identity of the <BR>remains.<BR><BR>However, Munn's sister, 87-year-old Jeanne Pyle, of St. Clairsville, Ohio, <BR>confirmed Tuesday that she and two other surviving sisters, Sara Zeyer, <BR>85, of Adena, Ohio, and Lois Shriver, 83, of Pittsburg, were notified <BR>Friday by military officials.<BR><BR>"I was so shook up I couldn't speak for a time," Pyle said. "Now, we are <BR>all so thrilled we can bring closure to this."<BR><BR>Pyle said she and her sisters plan to bury their brother in Ohio in a <BR>military funeral as soon as his remains are released by the military, <BR>probably in the next few weeks.<BR><BR>Military identification experts took blood samples from her and Zeyer in <BR>2005 after another body was found in the same area of Evolution Basin. <BR>That body was identified as Mustonen, 22, of Brainerd,
Minn. <BR><BR>Stekel, who's writing a book on the mystery, said he intends to hike back <BR>into the California high country this summer. <BR><BR>"I plan to return to the crash site again next summer and fall to continue <BR>my research," he said. "I don't want to hold out false hope for the Gamber <BR>and Mortenson families, but I also don't want to give up on searching <BR>until I'm confident there is nothing else to find."<BR><BR>"I can't express how happy I am for the Munn family," the author said from <BR>his Seattle home.<BR><BR>Stekel said he appreciates the work of the forensic anthropologists and <BR>other JPAC scientists who work to identify bodies of missing soldiers.<BR><BR>"Across all cultures, people care deeply about what happens to their <BR>bodies after death," he said. "It is our duty to ensure that these men are <BR>treated with the respect that we ourselves would expect. JPAC succeeds <BR>admirably at this
task."<BR><BR>---------------------------------------------------------<BR><BR>Seeya round town, Moscow.<BR><BR>Tom Hansen<BR>Moscow, Idaho<BR><BR>"Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the <BR>tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime." <BR><BR>-- Adlai E. Stevenson, Jr. <BR><BR><BR>---------------------------------------------<BR>This message was sent by First Step Internet.<BR>http://www.fsr.com/<BR><BR><BR>=======================================================<BR>List services made available by First Step Internet, <BR>serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <BR>http://www.fsr.net <BR>mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com<BR>=======================================================</BLOCKQUOTE><BR><p> 
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