Christopher Vanek News Today

The Jewish people, since antiquity, have always pursued the release of live captives or the retrieval of their murdered loved ones for proper burial.

When the last U.S. military cargo jet flew out of Afghanistan in August, marking the end of the United States' longest war, it also signaled a largely overlooked accomplishment. For the first time in the nation's history, a major conflict was ending without the U.S. military leaving any troops behind: no one missing in action behind enemy lines, and no nameless, unidentified bones to be solemnly interred in the Tomb of the Unknowns.

The driving factor, experts say, is a military culture that now makes the recovery of troops one of the military’s highest priorities