Joseph Meyer Returns Home

A SOLDIER MISSING IN ACTION SINCE 1950.... THE FAMILY OF JOSEPH MEYER NEVER THOUGHT HIS BODY WO...  More »

A SOLDIER MISSING IN ACTION SINCE 1950.... THE FAMILY OF JOSEPH MEYER NEVER THOUGHT HIS BODY WOULD BE FOUND AND SENT HOME. BUT D-N-A SAMPLES FROM HIS SISTERS MATCHED REMAINS FOUND IN North Korea. AND SO TODAY, PRIVATE MEYER WAS WELCOMED HOME. [Notes:slow dissolve out] <NAT OF WAITING INSIDE HECTOR AIRPORT, FAMILY AND FRIENDS, THE HOME CHURCH PRIEST GATHERED. NAT AFTER YEARS OF NOT KNOWING. JOSEPH MEYER'S TWO SISTERS CAME TOGETHER THIS AFTERNOON TO FINALLY BRING THEIR LITTLE BROTHER HOME. NAT THEY KNEW HIM AS A GOOD KID. AN 18-YEAR OLD RESTLESS BOY WHO WHO WANTED TO SERVE HIS COUNTRY. HE WENT MIA. AND FOR 57-YEARS, THESE SISTERS WONDERED. IF THEY WOULD LIVE TO SEE THEIR BROTHER COME HOME AGAIN. TODAY, FAMILY WELCOMED AND HONOR HIM. SOT [Notes:VERY VERY QUICK SUPER] [CG at 0:36:Name Super\ALICE PAUSCH\SISTER OF JOSEPH] I DON'T KNOW, IT IS JUST EXCITING. A HONOR GUARD CAME. MEN AND WOMEN YOUNG ENOUGH TO BE MEYER'S GRANDCHILDREN. A MILITARY ESCORT ALONG SIDE THE PRIVATE...FROM Hawaii TO HOME. NAT AND WHO CAN PREPARE FOR THIS. THE SOLEMN CEREMONY. YEARS OF EMOTION, MISSING THAT 18-YEAR OLD BOY, THEN SEEING THE FLAG DRAPED CASKET FOR THE FIRST TIME. SOT Crying HE LEFT Wahpeton A BOY. DIED A PRIVATE. TODAY, COMING HOME...A HERO. NAT Welcome Joseph back SO FEW KNEW HIM. THE PRIVATE WHO COULDN'T WAIT TO COME HOME FROM THE WAR. NAT-MOTORCYCLES AND SO TODAY, STRANGERS, REPRESENTING A THANKFUL COUNTRY, ESCORTED THIS SOLIDER HOME. A HOMECOMING FOR JOSEPH MEYER, A HEALING FOR THOSE WHO CAN FINALLY SAY GOOD-BYE.> THIS IS A SPECIAL DAY IN THE Catholic CHURCH. HONORING A SAINT SAINT JOSEPH. THE FUNERAL FOR JOSEPH MEYER WILL BE HELD THIS SATURDAY IN WAHPETON. HE'LL BE BURRIED WITH FULL MILITARY HONORS.  « Less