A Long Time Gone
Fifty-seven years after dying in his North Korean foxhole, 1st Lt. Dixie S. Parker, U.S. Army, of Green Pond, Ala, was buried last week in Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, D.C.
On Nov. 27, 1950, Parker was assigned to Battery B, 8th Field Artillery Battalion, 25th Infantry Division in a defensive position looking over the Kuryong River in P’yongan-Pukto Province, North Korea, where ever that is. He was serving as a foward artillery observer, calling in locations and arranging shots, when he was killed in his foxhole. His body was not recovered.
In 2000, a joint U.S./Democratic People’s Republic of Korea team, led by the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC), excavated a site overlooking the where U.S. soldiers were believed to be buried and recovered human remains and Parker’s identification tags and first lieutenant rank insignia.
Welcome home.
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