Topic: WWI Soldier Comes Home at Long Last

AJChenMPH · September 25th, 2006

WWI Soldier Comes Home at Long Last
His Remains Found Decades After He Fell on a French Battlefield, Ohio Private Emerges From Obscurity to Full Honors at Arlington

By Paul Duggan
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, September 25, 2006; A01

Missing in action, presumed dead.

And eventually he faded from living memory. His generation passed away, with everyone who loved him, everyone who mourned him. Time rendered him faceless. He was just a name, one of hundreds chiseled in limestone in a cemetery chapel 4,000 miles from home.

LUPO FRANCIS PVT 18TH INF
1ST DIV JULY 21 1918 OHIO

A lost doughboy.

But now he is found.

Discovered by chance, unearthed in 2003 by archaeologists looking for ancient remains, Pvt. Francis Lupo of Cincinnati has returned from the front at last, nearly 90 years after boarding a troop ship for France. Tomorrow, the Army will bury him again, this time with honors at Arlington National Cemetery, laying to rest possibly the longest-missing U.S. soldier ever recovered and identified: a ghost of World War I.

Lupo, killed at 23, most likely on his first day in heavy fighting, will get a fine Arlington send-off, with all the Army's Old Guard solemn pomp: a horse-drawn caisson; a bugler; rifle volleys; a tri-folded American flag for his next of kin, a niece born 15 years after the armistice.

Article Link -- it's too long to be posted here in its entirety.

Note: as I post this at 0930EDT 25 SEP 2006, the funeral will be held at 1100EDT 26 SEP 2006 at Arlington National Cemetery, starting at the post chapel. If you're in the area, you're free, and you have the appropriate service dress uniform, I'd encourage attendance -- please be there by 1030EDT. I'm in NJ as I type this, and I'm seriously contemplating getting up really early on Tuesday to haul my sorry a$$ down there for the service.

Missileer · September 25th, 2006

Now, at least, his family will know where his remains are. Thats more than a lot of families get.

Team Infidel · September 25th, 2006

I wish I could be there tomorrow, but work calls or I would.

tomtom22 · September 26th, 2006

May he finally rest in peace.... at home at last.

September 25th, 2006	Post 1
AJChenMPH Forum Health Inspector Gear	Post; WWI Soldier Comes Home at Long Last WWI Soldier Comes Home at Long Last His Remains Found Decades After He Fell on a French Battlefield, Ohio Private Emerges From Obscurity to Full Honors at Arlington By Paul Duggan Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, September 25, 2006; A01 Missing in action, presumed dead. And eventually he faded from living memory. His generation passed away, with everyone who loved him, everyone who mourned him. Time rendered him faceless. He was just a name, one of hundreds chiseled in limestone in a cemetery chapel 4,000 miles from home. LUPO FRANCIS PVT 18TH INF 1ST DIV JULY 21 1918 OHIO A lost doughboy. But now he is found. Discovered by chance, unearthed in 2003 by archaeologists looking for ancient remains, Pvt. Francis Lupo of Cincinnati has returned from the front at last, nearly 90 years after boarding a troop ship for France. Tomorrow, the Army will bury him again, this time with honors at Arlington National Cemetery, laying to rest possibly the longest-missing U.S. soldier ever recovered and identified: a ghost of World War I. Lupo, killed at 23, most likely on his first day in heavy fighting, will get a fine Arlington send-off, with all the Army's Old Guard solemn pomp: a horse-drawn caisson; a bugler; rifle volleys; a tri-folded American flag for his next of kin, a niece born 15 years after the armistice. Article Link -- it's too long to be posted here in its entirety. Note: as I post this at 0930EDT 25 SEP 2006, the funeral will be held at 1100EDT 26 SEP 2006 at Arlington National Cemetery, starting at the post chapel. If you're in the area, you're free, and you have the appropriate service dress uniform, I'd encourage attendance -- please be there by 1030EDT. I'm in NJ as I type this, and I'm seriously contemplating getting up really early on Tuesday to haul my sorry a$$ down there for the service. __________________ Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?" And I said, "Here am I. Send me!" -- Isaiah 6:8

September 25th, 2006	Post 2
Missileer Nuclear Duck Hunter Gear	Now, at least, his family will know where his remains are. Thats more than a lot of families get. __________________ “War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.” —John Stuart Mill

September 25th, 2006	Post 3
Team Infidel Milforum's Postmaster Gear	I wish I could be there tomorrow, but work calls or I would. __________________

September 26th, 2006	Post 4
tomtom22 Chief Engineer Gear	May he finally rest in peace.... at home at last. __________________ "It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle." - Norman Schwarskopf, Commander of Desert Storm Operations

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