GREAT FALLS, Mont. - Research, investigate, recover, and account for missing service members from past wars and conflicts and bring them home to their loved ones is the mission of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. There would be that hole in their family for decades with no hope of it being filled. So, by us doing what we do there s always going to be that hope that that hole will be filled in their family and that their loved one will be able to come home, said SFC Sean Everette, public affairs spokesperson for DPAA.Â
This mission has been around since the 1970 s, but DPAA as an organization was formed in 2015.Â
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Air Force Capt. Mark A. Peterson never came home from Vietnam.
Surely, he died there. But nobody was returned in a flag-draped coffin. Not even so much as a tooth or hair has been found. Nothing to prove the young pilot from North Canton was killed after he d parachuted from his aircraft, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam on Jan. 27, 1973.
On this Memorial Day, Peterson remains one of the Vietnam War s 1,584 U.S. service members still unaccounted for in Vietnam, Laos or Cambodia. Officially, he is missing in action, though presumed dead.
Gone, but not forgotten.
At first, Peterson s parents kept his memory alive. That is, until his dad, Mauritz Pete Peterson died in 1991; his mom, Rosalie, followed in 2002. Then, the duty fell squarely in the lap of his sister, Tanalynne (Peterson) Sickafoose, who passed away at the age of 61 in 2006.