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“I’ll look for him as long as I can,” Dumas recalled telling his mother. And so he did. But that search ended Saturday when Robert Dumas died at age 90. Roger Dumas, an Army machine gunner with the 19th Infantry Regiment of the 24th Battalion, was captured on Nov. 4, 1950 during a battle near the Manchurian border. The Army changed his classification to presumed dead on Feb. 26, 1954. The Dumas family was a large one. When Dumas, who lived in Canterbury, passed away he was listed as predeceased by 14 brothers and sisters. But without proof, Robert would never accept the conclusion that his brother Roger was dead. Roger would be 88 if alive, which would seem highly unlikely if he had remained a prisoner of North Korea after the war. ....