CILHI Summary

Almost at the same time, Ann Hart fired her shot to the CILHI. Three years after her Paske visit in 1982, the CILHI found and segregated all 13 remains on her husband’s aircraft from a pile of osseous shards. When the CILHI identification report was made, ten families accepted the conclusion and buried their beloved ones, while the other three (including Hart) refused. Hart, who only received seven bones deemed unidentifiable by other anthropologists, filed a lawsuit against the Air Force. In the wake of the long suspicion of the military’s oral commitment to search for MIAs and the trend of distrusting authorities (including the scientists serving them) since the 1970s, more families began to question the accuracy of Furue’s reports.

In several months, Fanning, Hart, and a few wives (backed by NLF) who were

A DNA molecule is composed of two complementary chains of four different types of nucleotides. Although more than 99.9% length of the human DNA (nucleotide) sequence is shared by all individuals, the remaining one thousandth is highly variable and specific to each person. As long as DNA molecules can be extracted from a single piece of bone, then amplified to an amount enough to sequence them, the bone will be sufficient to figure out the identity information unique to few individuals within a large population, sometimes to a single person. Because of this technology, the judgment of a soldier’s death will not need statures estimation from lengths of limbs, age prediction with pelvic bones, dental comparison, but just an alignment of a string of letter code (nucleotide sequence in a DNA) obtained from his bones with those from his relatives (conventional methods still play supportive roles as a single type of DNA identification alone is insufficient to determine one soldier’s identity). A person’s identity is not just his height, sex, race, and age, but a long array of A, T, C, G (four types of