As a member in good standing of VFW Post 1107, located in Wellpinit on the Spokane Indian Reservation, it warmed my heart to read about the special ceremony held at the Washington State Veterans Cemetery recently, now claimed and properly interred.

The members of VFW Post 1107 could be recognized as the direct descendants of the original Homeland Security team.

My uncle, Charles Addington, from Ford, Washington, was listed as missing in action during the Battle of the Bulge, and in 1994, after his mother had died, my mom received a U.S. government letter indicating that her brother had been killed in action during the Battle of the Bulge.

To protect French Resistance members, who witnessed his and the Nazi S.S. executions of six others in his unit in a dirty barn in southern France, my uncle’s death was kept classified.

I hope and pray that my Uncle Charles’ remains can someday be returned to the Spokane Indian Reservation. I know our family and his friends would very much appreciate it.

James Perkins

Colville