KENTUCKY, USA — More than 50 years after he was declared missing in action during the Vietnam War, a Kentucky soldier’s remains will finally return home.

Kentucky State Police will escort the remains of U.S. Air Force Staff Seargeant Henry Gerald Gish from Louisville to Berea where he will be laid to rest with full military honors.

Gish was assigned to a classified radar site in Laos when Vietnamese commandos overran his position. He and 10 other Americans lost their lives in the attack on March 11, 1968.

Declared missing in action, Gish remained unaccounted for until the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency recently confirmed the identification of his remains after decades of recovery efforts.

"Escorting Staff Sergeant Gish home is a tremendous honor," KSP Post 4 Commander Jeremy Smith s

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