– We all heard about him, we knew about his history and that he was a war hero. We always hoped he would be found, Poupolo’s great-grandson Richard Graham tells the news agency. AP.
Poupolo’s sister is still alive. The family had not imagined that the 99-year-old woman – who last saw her brother when she was 20 – would witness the discovery of her brother’s remains.
– For her it was like he died again, Graham tells the news agency.
The Korean War began in 1950 between Communist forces in the north and Western-backed forces in the south of the Korean peninsula.
The Soviet Union and China supported Kim Il Sung’s Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the North Korean army. The United States and several other Western countries supported the Republic of Korea and the South Korean military, according to Great Norwegian encyclopedia.
To date, there is only a formally ceasefire agreement between the parties, better known as North Korea and South Korea.
Poupolo served as a gunner in the United States Eighth Army participating in battles during the war. He was reported missing as early as 1950, AP writes.
