Here is a great story about a casualty from the Korean War finally being laid to rest back in the US:

U.S. Navy Ensign Robert Langwell would have been destined for a dark, watery grave if not for the kindess of a fisherman in South Korea who pulled his body from the ocean some 60 years ago.

Thanks to a tip from that same fisherman, family members were able to bury Langwell on Monday at Arlington National Cemetery.

Langwell, a native of Columbus, Ind., died aboard the USS Magpie when the ship hit a mine and exploded off the coast of South Korea on Oct. 1, 1950, months after the start of the Korean War. Twelve soldiers survived; Langwell was one of 20 lost at sea. He was 26.

Days later, his body got tangled in that fisherman’s net and was pulled from the sea. Local residents buried him in a shallow grave in Chuksan-ri, South Korea, where he remained for decades.

Two years ago, the fisherman’s tip led South Korean officials to search for Langwell‘s body. In April of last year, they recovered his skeletal remains and an old identification card from a shallow grave three miles from where the ship sank.

A geneology search led U.S. Navy officials to Brenda Showalter, also of Columbus, who is Langwell‘s second cousin.  [Washington Times]

Read the rest at the link, but you have to appreciate the fact that the Korean fishermen’s family provided a proper burial for him after finding him in his net followed by alerting investigators to the burial location.