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BYU students search for lost veterans decades later

By KSL · November 11, 2026 · 1 min read
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BYU students are working with a program that helps people from Utah and beyond finally get answers about family members lost to foreign wars. The program is called the Defense POW MIA Accounting Agency, and students are working to finally repatriate the remains of veterans lost as long ago as World War II.

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