Sens. Manchin, Capito Join Bipartisan Effort Urging Defense Secretary to Proceed With Disinterment of Americans Who Died in Prison Fire in Tokyo
September 17, 2021
September 17, 2021
WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release:
U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) joined Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) and a bipartisan group of senators in sending a letter to the U.S. Department of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin requesting an exception "to allow the Defense POW-MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) to proceed with immediate disinterment of the American servicemembers who died in the 1945 Tokyo m . . .
U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) joined Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) and a bipartisan group of senators in sending a letter to the U.S. Department of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin requesting an exception "to allow the Defense POW-MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) to proceed with immediate disinterment of the American servicemembers who died in the 1945 Tokyo m . . .