![Charlie Neibergall Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency forensic anthropologist Carrie Brown speaks in a lab at Offutt Air Force Base, Monday, May 20, 2024, in Bellevue, Neb. Generations of American families have grown up without ever knowing exactly what happened to their loved ones who served in the military. But a lab tucked away above the bowling alley on Offutt Air Force Base in the Omaha suburbs and a sister lab in Hawaii that are part of the federal DPAA are steadily answering those lingering questions and offering about 200 families a year the chance to honor their relatives with a proper burial. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/9e5f4b2a123044cf9afeb11dbbe72ccf/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency forensic anthropologist Carrie Brown speaks in a lab at Offutt Air Force Base, Monday, May 20, 2024, in Bellevue, Neb. Generations of American families have grown up without ever knowing exactly what happened to their loved ones who served in the military. But a lab tucked away above the bowling alley on Offutt Air Force Base in the Omaha suburbs and a sister lab in Hawaii that are part of the federal DPAA are steadily answering those lingering questions and offering about 200 families a year the chance to honor their relatives with a proper burial. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
![Charlie Neibergall Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency forensic anthropologist Carrie Brown looks at objects in a lab at Offutt Air Force Base, Monday, May 20, 2024, in Bellevue, Neb. Generations of American families have grown up without ever knowing exactly what happened to their loved ones who served in the military. But a lab tucked away above the bowling alley on Offutt Air Force Base in the Omaha suburbs and a sister lab in Hawaii that are part of the federal DPAA are steadily answering those lingering questions and offering about 200 families a year the chance to honor their relatives with a proper burial. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/23340d93b87c410d9f44b6cf72de1273/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency forensic anthropologist Carrie Brown looks at objects in a lab at Offutt Air Force Base, Monday, May 20, 2024, in Bellevue, Neb. Generations of American families have grown up without ever knowing exactly what happened to their loved ones who served in the military. But a lab tucked away above the bowling alley on Offutt Air Force Base in the Omaha suburbs and a sister lab in Hawaii that are part of the federal DPAA are steadily answering those lingering questions and offering about 200 families a year the chance to honor their relatives with a proper burial. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
![Charlie Neibergall Photos of service members are seen on a wall in a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency lab at Offutt Air Force Base, Monday, May 20, 2024, in Bellevue, Neb. Generations of American families have grown up without ever knowing exactly what happened to their loved ones who served in the military. But a lab tucked away above the bowling alley on Offutt Air Force Base in the Omaha suburbs and a sister lab in Hawaii that are part of the federal DPAA are steadily answering those lingering questions and offering about 200 families a year the chance to honor their relatives with a proper burial. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/06e874720a5b40e38f1a5405b08d207e/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Photos of service members are seen on a wall in a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency lab at Offutt Air Force Base, Monday, May 20, 2024, in Bellevue, Neb. Generations of American families have grown up without ever knowing exactly what happened to their loved ones who served in the military. But a lab tucked away above the bowling alley on Offutt Air Force Base in the Omaha suburbs and a sister lab in Hawaii that are part of the federal DPAA are steadily answering those lingering questions and offering about 200 families a year the chance to honor their relatives with a proper burial. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
![Charlie Neibergall Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency forensic anthropologist Carrie Brown looks through a reference book in a lab at Offutt Air Force Base, Monday, May 20, 2024, in Bellevue, Neb. Generations of American families have grown up without ever knowing exactly what happened to their loved ones who served in the military. But a lab tucked away above the bowling alley on Offutt Air Force Base in the Omaha suburbs and a sister lab in Hawaii that are part of the federal DPAA are steadily answering those lingering questions and offering about 200 families a year the chance to honor their relatives with a proper burial. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/9723978cd43e42749e884c509bcebfb9/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency forensic anthropologist Carrie Brown looks through a reference book in a lab at Offutt Air Force Base, Monday, May 20, 2024, in Bellevue, Neb. Generations of American families have grown up without ever knowing exactly what happened to their loved ones who served in the military. But a lab tucked away above the bowling alley on Offutt Air Force Base in the Omaha suburbs and a sister lab in Hawaii that are part of the federal DPAA are steadily answering those lingering questions and offering about 200 families a year the chance to honor their relatives with a proper burial. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
![Charlie Neibergall Items are seen in a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency lab at Offutt Air Force Base, Monday, May 20, 2024, in Bellevue, Neb. Generations of American families have grown up without ever knowing exactly what happened to their loved ones who served in the military. But a lab tucked away above the bowling alley on Offutt Air Force Base in the Omaha suburbs and a sister lab in Hawaii that are part of the federal DPAA are steadily answering those lingering questions and offering about 200 families a year the chance to honor their relatives with a proper burial. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/12be677fbe404580ae7d42054fb20ef6/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Items are seen in a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency lab at Offutt Air Force Base, Monday, May 20, 2024, in Bellevue, Neb. Generations of American families have grown up without ever knowing exactly what happened to their loved ones who served in the military. But a lab tucked away above the bowling alley on Offutt Air Force Base in the Omaha suburbs and a sister lab in Hawaii that are part of the federal DPAA are steadily answering those lingering questions and offering about 200 families a year the chance to honor their relatives with a proper burial. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
![Charlie Neibergall Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency forensic anthropologist Carrie Brown looks at photos of service members from the USS Oklahoma on a wall at Offutt Air Force Base, Monday, May 20, 2024, in Bellevue, Neb. Generations of American families have grown up without ever knowing exactly what happened to their loved ones who served in the military. But a lab tucked away above the bowling alley on Offutt Air Force Base in the Omaha suburbs and a sister lab in Hawaii that are part of the federal DPAA are steadily answering those lingering questions and offering about 200 families a year the chance to honor their relatives with a proper burial. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/8a924d83274f4d08bd6712a3cd41b95d/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency forensic anthropologist Carrie Brown looks at photos of service members from the USS Oklahoma on a wall at Offutt Air Force Base, Monday, May 20, 2024, in Bellevue, Neb. Generations of American families have grown up without ever knowing exactly what happened to their loved ones who served in the military. But a lab tucked away above the bowling alley on Offutt Air Force Base in the Omaha suburbs and a sister lab in Hawaii that are part of the federal DPAA are steadily answering those lingering questions and offering about 200 families a year the chance to honor their relatives with a proper burial. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
![Charlie Neibergall Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency forensic anthropologist Carrie Brown holds a watch in a lab at Offutt Air Force Base, Monday, May 20, 2024, in Bellevue, Neb. Generations of American families have grown up without ever knowing exactly what happened to their loved ones who served in the military. But a lab tucked away above the bowling alley on Offutt Air Force Base in the Omaha suburbs and a sister lab in Hawaii that are part of the federal DPAA are steadily answering those lingering questions and offering about 200 families a year the chance to honor their relatives with a proper burial. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/612322e4e865455f8acf7a2cab3a257f/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency forensic anthropologist Carrie Brown holds a watch in a lab at Offutt Air Force Base, Monday, May 20, 2024, in Bellevue, Neb. Generations of American families have grown up without ever knowing exactly what happened to their loved ones who served in the military. But a lab tucked away above the bowling alley on Offutt Air Force Base in the Omaha suburbs and a sister lab in Hawaii that are part of the federal DPAA are steadily answering those lingering questions and offering about 200 families a year the chance to honor their relatives with a proper burial. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
![Nick Ingram Donna Kennedy holds a photo of her cousin, Cpl. Charles Ray Patten who was buried with full military honors, Monday, May 20, 2024 in Lawson, Mo. He was identified by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. Patten died 74 years earlier in the Korean War, but spent decades buried as an unknown in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Hawaii. (AP Photo/Nick Ingram)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/5cc3df7125c84b46a71236c7f9699ca2/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Donna Kennedy holds a photo of her cousin, Cpl. Charles Ray Patten who was buried with full military honors, Monday, May 20, 2024 in Lawson, Mo. He was identified by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. Patten died 74 years earlier in the Korean War, but spent decades buried as an unknown in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Hawaii. (AP Photo/Nick Ingram)
![Charlie Neibergall A worker looks at objects in a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency lab at Offutt Air Force Base, Monday, May 20, 2024, in Bellevue, Neb. Generations of American families have grown up without ever knowing exactly what happened to their loved ones who served in the military. But a lab tucked away above the bowling alley on Offutt Air Force Base in the Omaha suburbs and a sister lab in Hawaii that are part of the federal DPAA are steadily answering those lingering questions and offering about 200 families a year the chance to honor their relatives with a proper burial. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/8b6fc77a37e2463c9b54228d2f5ef2bb/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
A worker looks at objects in a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency lab at Offutt Air Force Base, Monday, May 20, 2024, in Bellevue, Neb. Generations of American families have grown up without ever knowing exactly what happened to their loved ones who served in the military. But a lab tucked away above the bowling alley on Offutt Air Force Base in the Omaha suburbs and a sister lab in Hawaii that are part of the federal DPAA are steadily answering those lingering questions and offering about 200 families a year the chance to honor their relatives with a proper burial. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
![Charlie Neibergall A Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency patch is seen on the jacket of forensic anthropologist Carrie Brown in a lab at Offutt Air Force Base, Monday, May 20, 2024, in Bellevue, Neb. Generations of American families have grown up without ever knowing exactly what happened to their loved ones who served in the military. But a lab tucked away above the bowling alley on Offutt Air Force Base in the Omaha suburbs and a sister lab in Hawaii that are part of the federal DPAA are steadily answering those lingering questions and offering about 200 families a year the chance to honor their relatives with a proper burial. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/249ca6b578724af8905246d75c73a609/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
A Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency patch is seen on the jacket of forensic anthropologist Carrie Brown in a lab at Offutt Air Force Base, Monday, May 20, 2024, in Bellevue, Neb. Generations of American families have grown up without ever knowing exactly what happened to their loved ones who served in the military. But a lab tucked away above the bowling alley on Offutt Air Force Base in the Omaha suburbs and a sister lab in Hawaii that are part of the federal DPAA are steadily answering those lingering questions and offering about 200 families a year the chance to honor their relatives with a proper burial. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
![Charlie Neibergall Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency forensic anthropologist Carrie Brown looks at objects in a lab at Offutt Air Force Base, Monday, May 20, 2024, in Bellevue, Neb. Generations of American families have grown up without ever knowing exactly what happened to their loved ones who served in the military. But a lab tucked away above the bowling alley on Offutt Air Force Base in the Omaha suburbs and a sister lab in Hawaii that are part of the federal DPAA are steadily answering those lingering questions and offering about 200 families a year the chance to honor their relatives with a proper burial. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/cc643dd29de7468fb4f663581bd2c18d/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency forensic anthropologist Carrie Brown looks at objects in a lab at Offutt Air Force Base, Monday, May 20, 2024, in Bellevue, Neb. Generations of American families have grown up without ever knowing exactly what happened to their loved ones who served in the military. But a lab tucked away above the bowling alley on Offutt Air Force Base in the Omaha suburbs and a sister lab in Hawaii that are part of the federal DPAA are steadily answering those lingering questions and offering about 200 families a year the chance to honor their relatives with a proper burial. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)