[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 130 (Thursday, July 27, 2023)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E733]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




      HONORING THE LIFE OF U.S. ARMY CORPORAL DEWEY E. REWIS, JR.

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                     HON. EARL L. ``BUDDY'' CARTER

                               of georgia

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, July 27, 2023

  Mr. CARTER of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the life of 
Dewey Rewis, Jr., a POW/MIA who, seventy years after he was reported 
missing, was finally identified.
  In 1950, the Waycross Georgia native joined the Battery D, 15th Anti-
Aircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion, 31st Regimental Combat 
Team, 7th Infantry Division stationed in Korea.
  He was reported missing in action on December 2, 1950, after his unit 
came under attack while advancing along the eastern banks of Chosin 
Reservoir.
  In 1953, four POWs returned home from Korea and reported that Cpl. 
Lewis had been a prisoner of war and had passed away in March 1951.
  During Operation Glory, North Korea returned the remains of some U.S. 
soldiers that had died in the area north of Chosin Reservoir known as 
``Death Valley''.
  Unfortunately, Dewey was not among those returned. He was determined 
to be unrecoverable on January 16, 1956.
  In October of 2022, researchers were able to identify Cpl. Rewis' 
remains using mitochondrial DNA and Y chromosome analysis.
  Dewey's name is recorded on the American Battle Monuments 
Commission's Courts of Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the 
Pacific in Honolulu, along with others who are still missing from the 
Korean War. He will have a rosette placed next to his name to indicate 
that he has been accounted for.
  Cpl. Rewis paid the ultimate sacrifice for his country, and today we 
honor him.

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