Re: Speicher Remains Buried in the Desert?
Date: April 02, 2004
"Speicher
Status Change
By Beth Younggren/WCJB TV 20 News
While in Gainesville Friday morning, US Senator Bill Nelson received disappointing
news in the search for prisoner of war, Captain Scott Speicher. Senator Nelson
has long advocated for the search of the north Florida pilot, which intensified
when this gulf war began.
Speicher's plane went down the first night of the 1991 Gulf War. He's the only
serviceman listed as killed in action, then missing in action, and two years
ago re-classified as prisoner of war.
But now, Nelson says tribesmen in Iraq believe his body is buried in the Iraqi
desert. Senator Nelson says he's heartbroken for the family, "But on the
other hand the family needs closure, evidence how he died, when and where he's
buried."
Those questions have yet to be answered, but the rescue - turned recovery mission
will continue in Iraq.
2002 WCJB-TV20"
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