June 5, 1997 The Honorable Susan Molinari Member, U .S. House ...

Your help is needed to identifyMIA remains fromWWII, Korea and Vietnam!Consider the thousands of servicemen who are buried as Unknowns in the NationalCerneterv of the Pacific at Oahu, Hawaii and the relief the families (if the seservicemen could feel if their loved one was positively identified .Of the 2W remains received from N . Korea in the past five years, only 7 have been positively identified .This is partially because a reference DNA database is not yet in place and also because our government has notappropriated sufficient funds to staff the forensic labs at CILHI .Actions to be taken1 . We need to contact our Representatives to remind them that our government needsto stand by their conunitments as our servicemen stood by theirs .2 . Contact your casualty officer at the toll-free numbers below and ask how to obtain asample kit .3 . Mitochondrial DNA blood samples need to be obtained from the maternal line . Seechart below :DNA CHARTMotherthe Mother is the logical startingpoint since she passed the intDNA tothe missing person .Aunt :the Mother's Sisterthe Aunt of the missing h rson hasthe :same rntDNA as the mother ofthe missing PersonSister'or Brother Sister's offspringthe brother inherited the sairtemtDNA as the missing person butdoes riot pass it on to his children,Cousins can be rrale or female aslong is their mother and the missingI-' r son's mother were sistersthe Sist r passes the .nito both her male and ftoffspring .Cousins on Mother's side Sister's offspringBoth male tired femalethe missing person' ; siritDNA, but only the 1pass it on to their chiliINFORMATION