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May 1, 2026 ~ Marie Osborne, WJR Director of Community Affairs and News, discusses an important event taking place this Saturday as the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency hosts a Family Member Update for nearly 500 families in Detroit and surrounding areas.
DETROIT, MICH. ~ On Saturday at the Renaissance Center, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency will meet with nearly 500 Metro Detroit military families in attempt to reconnect missing loved ones.
Using DNA in searches has helped broaden the scope of ways to identify lost individuals, but there are still 2,822 that are missing, according to Deputy Director of Operations for the Defense POW/MIA Meghan Bodner.
“In many cases, they just don’t know. They don’t know what happened,” Bodner said on Focus. “And so this is an opportunity to find out something and to know that there is an agency out there that is looking for their loved one and doing everything possible to bring them home.”
Just last year, 23-year-old Army Private First Class Harold Dulyea from Twin Lake, Michigan, who was killed in the Korean War, was identified. The vast majority of all missing Americans is from World War II.
