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Eight Army soldiers wearing ceremonial dress uniforms as carrying a U.S. flag-draped casket during a funeral at a cemetery.
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ARLINGTON, Va. - Soldiers from the 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) conduct full military funeral honors with escort for U.S. Army Tech Sgt. Joseph Moore in Section 78 of Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, Friday, Nov. 21, 2025. Moore was reported missing in action in 1944 during WWII. His remains were officially accounted for on Dec. 20, 2024 – nearly 80 years later. From the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) release: In December 1944, Moore was assigned to Company A, 1st Battalion, 121st Infantry Regiment, 8th Infantry Division, in Europe. His regiment had recently captured Hürtgen, Germany, during the Hürtgen Forest offensive. Beginning Dec. 1, Moore’s unit was part of the push east from the town. He was reported missing in action as of Dec. 11 while his unit occupied the woods between Brandenberg and Kleinhau, though there is no clear indication of what happened to him. The Germans never reported Moore as a German prisoner of war, and Army investigators found no evidence he survived the fighting around Brandenberg and Kleinhau. The War Department issued a presumptive finding of death on Dec. 12, 1945. Following the end of the war, the American Graves Registration Command (AGRC) was tasked with investigating and recovering missing American personnel in Europe. They conducted several investigations and recoveries in the Hürtgen Forest between 1946 and 1950 but were unable to find and identify Moore. He was declared Non-Recoverable on Dec. 12, 1951. DPAA historians are in the midst of an extensive research and recovery project focused American Soldiers missing from ground combat in the Hürtgen Forest. They determined that two sets of unknown remains previously recovered by the AGRC, designated X-2751 and X-2754B, buried at Ardennes American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Neupré, Belgium, were likely associated to unresolved soldiers m


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