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Sort of sad that these guys don't get the idea to leave the body frozen
and store it for future technology to<br>
re-activate; after all the guy is already dead and if the radiant heat
did not decompose him what is left<br>
might be a worthy challenge to regenerative technology yet to come.<br>
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The red tape to get this done would be enormous , but if I were the
frozen corpsicle I'd want <br>
to have the benefit of the technology over being ID'd and turned over
to family to be given a proper<br>
decompositional burial.<br>
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Some of the lost Antarctic explorers would also be good candidates, if
they can stay untouched/unfound <br>
until the crypt keepers become more technologically motivated.<br>
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<div class="Atitleb"><b>Body Found Believed to Be WWII Airman</b></div>
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<font size="1">By JULIANA BARBASSA</font>
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<span style="font-size: 12px;">FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - Two climbers on a
Sierra Nevada glacier
discovered an ice-encased body believed to be that of an airman
whose plane crashed in 1942.
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<span style="font-size: 12px;">The man was wearing a World War II-era
Army-issued parachute
when his frozen head, shoulder and arm were spotted Sunday on
13,710-foot Mount Mendel in Kings Canyon National Park, park
spokeswoman Alex Picavet said.
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<span style="font-size: 12px;">Park rangers and specialists camped on
the remote mountainside
in freezing weather for an excavation expected to take several
days. The body was 80 percent encased in ice, Picavet said
Wednesday.
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``We're not going to go fast,'' she said. ``We want to preserve
him as much as possible. He's pretty intact.''
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<span style="font-size: 12px;">The excavation crew included an expert
from the Joint POW/MIA
Accounting Command, a military unit that identifies and recovers
personnel who have been missing for decades.
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<span style="font-size: 12px;">Park officials believe the serviceman
may have been part of the
crew of an AT-7 navigational training plane that crashed on Nov.
18, 1942. The wreckage and four bodies were found in 1947 by a
climber.
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<span style="font-size: 12px;">Some 88,000 Americans are missing in
action from past wars,
military officers said. Most of them - 78,000 - are from World War
II.
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<span style="font-size: 12px;">The Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command
works on hundreds of cases
a year, averaging two identifications a week, said spokeswoman Rumi
Nielson-Green.
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Finding bodies preserved in a glacier is unusual but not unheard
of, command officials said. Two years ago, the unit recovered the
body of a Cold War-era officer who died in Greenland.
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