At Least He Didn't Have to Wait as Long as the Ice Man

Politburo Diktat tells of a WW2 airman, crashed in the Sierras in 1942, that has been found and ID'ed. The last statement, though is the killer:

Military officials said there are 88,000 Americans still missing from past wars, most of them, 78,000, from World War II.

78,000 missing soldiers. Thirty-nine times our current casualties. Gone. Not even with a headstone for a marker and a letter home to the folks. Disappeared, as though the earth had swallowed them up.

It boggles the mind.