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Korean War POW Finally Buried After 60 Years
FREEPORT, Ill. (AP) -- For 60 years, Artie Hodapp's family agonized over a heart-rending mystery: Where had the young man come to rest after dying in the Korean War?

Hodapp's long journey home ended this week at a cemetery in northern Illinois, where he was buried with full military honors.

Six decades later, Hodapp is no longer a forgotten soldier of the Forgotten War, but an example of the U.S. Defense Department's stubborn efforts to account for men lost in long-ago battles.

Through a review of Army reports and the memories of a fellow POW tracked down in New Jersey, The Associated Press was able to reconstruct the conditions under which the young man, called a ``spitfire'' and the ``life of the party,'' starved to death in a prisoner of war camp.

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05 30 11 by Newsroom
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