Josh Alvarez

Karoni Forrester grew up looking for her father. Along the way, she found even more MIA families like hers in need of help.

Karoni Forrester grew up looking for her father. Along the way, she found even more MIA families like hers in need of help.

After her husband went missing in Southeast Asia, Carole Hickerson put out a call to support missing service members and their families. Her message helped launch one of the most successful advocacy groups in American history.

After her husband went missing in Southeast Asia, Carole Hickerson put out a call to support missing service members and their families. Her message helped launch one of the most successful advocacy groups in American history.

Alexandra Whitmire helps astronauts deal with prolonged isolation and, someday maybe, living on Mars.

Long after the Vietnam War, many Americans believed some POWs were still alive, secretly imprisoned in Southeast Asia. History professor Michael Allen explains why.

Take a tour of the Defense Department’s forensic lab in Hawaii, where scientists analyze service members’ remains from remote locations around the world.

To tell the story of the search for U.S. Marine Captain Ron Forrester, Texas Monthly writer Josh Alvarez spent more than a year reporting and traveling around the world.

The fate of Captain Ronald Forrester was a mystery until a key breakthrough pointed investigators—and his family—toward a single rice paddy in a rural village, just in time.

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