Every Veteran’s Day I am thankful and grateful for all who have served and who are currently serving our country. I especially think of my uncle, Mitchel Bulhack. I never met him since he went missing in action in September, 1944 in the Netherlands as part of the 82nd Airborne during the Market Garden military campaign. He parachuted behind German lines and two days later went missing in action. A year later he was officially declared missing in action, presumed dead.
However, this year is different. In June, the U.S. Army at Fort Knox in Kentucky reached out and through the miracle of DNA technology, they officially notified us that they had definitively identified his remains. This obviously closes a long running, unresolved question in our family.
As a result of this finding, we are working with the U.S. Army to provide him a full military burial at Arlington National Cemetery in the spring of 2027. As a Bronze Star and Purple Heart recipient, it is the right thing to do.
Thanks again to the U.S. Army and their anthropologists, geneticists, medical examiner, and especially the Army recovery units in the 1940s that scoured Europe for the remains of missing action U.S.soldiers. Their work is greatly appreciated in helping us bring Mitchel to a proper resting place in the fields of honor at Arlington.
