Via Fox News:
Charles McDaniel Jr. was at home in Indianapolis when his wife told him he had a phone call. To his surprise, he learned that among the 55 boxes believed to hold the remains of U.S. servicemen killed during the Korean War was his dad’s dog tag.
“I have to say I didn’t think about the emotions that were very deep even though I was a small boy and have very little memory of my father,” he said. “But I sat there and I cried for a while and it took a while to compose myself.”
He and his brother, Larry, finally received their father’s dog tag at an emotional ceremony on Wednesday in Washington, D.C.
Charles Jr. said he was just 3 when his father, Master Sgt. Charles Hobert McDaniel, deployed with the First Cavalry Division in Japan around August 1950. After that deployment, Charles Jr. never saw his dad again.