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Coming home: A Korean War veteran who was an MIA for decades is finally buried on home soil

INDIANAPOLIS - The last memory Charles McDaniel had of his father was as a 3-year-old boy living on an U.S. Army base in Tokyo in 1950. His dad, coming home from work, picked him up and playfully swung him around in the air.

For decades, that was pretty much all there was. Sometimes, he would look in the mirror and see a faint resemblance - though he thought his younger brother, Larry, inherited more of their dad's features.

Charles McDaniel thought about this Saturday morning as he stood and saluted before the flag-draped casket that held his father's remains. The now-71-year-old man's hand trembled slightly as a cold wind kicked up and a stiffened flag flew at the grave site. He thought about his mother, sitting next to him. He thought about how it had taken 68 years for his

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