Benjamin F. Bitner, age 37, from Greencastle, Pennsylvania, Franklin county.
Service era: Afghanistan
Military history: 2nd Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group, Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
Date of death: Saturday, April 23, 2011
Death details: Died in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his unit using an improvised explosive device.
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Robert Earl Meyers, age 18, from Franklin County Greencastle, Pennsylvania .
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Friday, December 1, 1950
Death details: On September 4, 2015, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified the remains of Corporal Robert Earl Meyers, missing from the Korean War. Corporal Meyers, who joined the U.S. Army from Pennsylvania, was a member of A Company, 2nd Engineer Combat Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division. On December 1, 1950, he went missing in action while fighting through an enemy roadblock near Sonchu, North Korea. In September 1954, North Korean officials returned a set of remains to U.S. custody that included those of CPL Meyers; however, the remains could not be identified at the time and were buried as unknowns at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. Advances in forensic technology eventually prompted the re-analysis and identification of CPL Meyer’s remains. Corporal Meyers is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Cemetery: Arlington National (buried Oct. 26, 2015)
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Chambersburg Public Opinion (2015)