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Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff U.S. Marine Gen. Peter Pace kisses Patricia Scharf, widow of Col. Charles Scharf, on the cheek during a POW/MIA Recognition Day ceremony at the Pentagon, Sept. 21, 2007. The colonel, an F-4C Phantom II pilot, was shot down over Vietnam, Oct. 1, 1965. Fragments of Scharf's remains were identified last year using DNA from love letters he had sent to his wife.

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff U.S. Marine Gen. Peter Pace kisses Patricia Scharf, widow of Col. Charles Scharf, on the cheek during a POW/MIA Recognition Day ceremony at the Pentagon, Sept. 21, 2007. The colonel, an F-4C Phantom II pilot, was shot down over Vietnam, Oct. 1, 1965. Fragments of Scharf's remains were identified last year using DNA from love letters he had sent to his wife.

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff U.S. Marine Gen. Peter Pace kisses Patricia Scharf, widow of Col. Charles Scharf, on the cheek during a POW/MIA Recognition Day ceremony at the Pentagon, Sept. 21, 2007. The colonel, an F-4C Phantom II pilot, was shot down over Vietnam, Oct. 1, 1965. Fragments of Scharf's remains were identified last year using DNA from love letters he had sent to his wife.

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