Sergeant Major Justin LaHue
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And Mark Noah was being honored that year for his efforts on trying to do this. And that is where Mark and I linked up. So about three years later, when I called it quits as a career, Mark and I circled back around again. He asked me after a short interview, I laid out battle histories and everything else. And he said, Hey, I'd love for you to come over here and run this organization. I signed on there with him as a great partner.
as the chief operating officer and now the chief executive officer. And we have searched with offices in the Philippines, Cabanatuan, Palawan, operations going on there. The island of Tarawa, it's still being contested by the Chinese, which we've had work visas frozen out to go back in to get those individuals, Steve, for going on five years now. And the pace is not moving.
Even contact through the U.S. State Department doesn't seem to move the needle. And a lot of other people that kind of say, well, yeah, we're kind of working on that. Well, I don't know how much, yeah, we're kind of working on that is actually happening. No, no, we can't tolerate that. President Trump...
were either incarcerated, died in prison, in Chinese prison camps, or were killed outright in North Korea. So in Korea, there is roughly still about 7,400 missing. Probably about 5,300 of those are in North Korea. And in 2017, President Trump had negotiated with North Korea to return 55 boxes of remains. Now,
In those boxes of remains, those should not be equated to an individual. Those were not just 55 individuals. There were commingled sets of remains inside each of those boxes. And when those were turned over to the Defense POW MIA agency and their great labs out there in Hawaii, they started to call through all of the bones and start to run down families, do DNA, try to get some material evidence, whatever they could.
And of those 55 boxes and remains, there were 250 individuals when that was all laid out and all tested that had now been positively identified from those 55 boxes of unilateral turnover of remains. And I really thought at that point, wow, we did it. We're on a trajectory. If we can do that and do that with North Korea, you know, we should be able to do that with just about anybody.
on this great humanitarian mission around the world. But in a lot of ways, since 2017, access to a lot of those areas, not just in North Korea, but these other contested areas we're talking about, really hasn't opened up the door for this great humanitarian thing we have going on. And a lot of momentum is not being moving forward. And now, you know, these remains that still are out there getting turned up in the ground, Steve,
And Vic Cabrera and his wife, Madeline, they were missing Madeline's brother, Jack Mather, United States Army, missing from Korea. Well, he was in POW. He was known to be in POW Camp 5 for a while. When the remains and everybody else who died in captivity at POW Camp 5 were turned back over at the end of the war, Jack Mather, a known POW, his remains was never turned back over.
or his remains laying in unmarked graves waiting for DNA testing. But there are a lot when that ended, and it never ended. I don't think you can put a finger on how many Americans suffered at the hands in those brutal winters up there, probably for one, two, three, who knows how many years after that.
You'll find a lot of fabulous information about returns, recoveries, and things like Cleo was talking about, about how to get DNA and how to find and help other families. The walk is www.teamlongroad.com. That'll give you the overall thing from 2022 of the mission of the Hawaii. We are out there doing it, and right now we're streaming, Steve, on multiple social media platforms worldwide.
between ex-Facebook and over on LinkedIn to try to capture, because not only are we out here just raising awareness for that, you know, we're out here to raise funds in the private sector to be able to go after and try to be one of the last hopes that a generation of American family has. So, you know, if I'm pulling down between 25K and 50K out here, which is a nice swag window to be,
You know, we've been out here for about eight days now, and we are getting and generating some donations, but we're not in that sweet spot. We've got another week and a half to go, and every dollar that anybody donates over here, Steve, goes right to the field to give another American family possibly their last chance at hope to bring home their fallen American hero.
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