ANDERSONVILLE, Ga. — A Memorial Day burial is deliberate for a U.S. Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient whose stays have been recognized practically 73 years after he went lacking throughout the Korean War.

Cpl. Luther H. Story’s stays will likely be buried on the May 29 vacation at Andersonville National Cemetery close to his hometown of Americus, Georgia, the Army mentioned in an announcement Friday.

President Joe Biden introduced final month that scientists had positively recognized Story’s stays. The information coincided with a Washington go to by South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol.

The 19-year-old Story had been lacking since Sept. 1, 1950. The wounded corporal was final seen preventing off North Korean attackers in order that his fellow troopers may attain security. His Medal of Honor quotation says Story remained behind understanding his accidents would decelerate his fellow troopers.

“When last seen he was firing every weapon available and fighting off another hostile assault,” the quotation says.

Story was awarded the nation’s highest navy honor posthumously. The medal was offered to his father throughout a Pentagon ceremony in 1951.

On Jan. 16, 1954, the corporal was declared unrecoverable. His stays have been nonetheless lacking.

In June 2021, the U.S. disinterred the stays of 652 unidentified Korean War casualties buried on the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Hawaii.

Among them have been stays recovered from Sangde-po, South Korea, in October 1950. Scientists efficiently matched them to Story utilizing DNA in addition to dental and anthropological evaluation.

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