The remains of Captain Michael Scott Speicher, who was a US navy pilot and the first American combat casualty in the Gulf War when his jet was shot down back in 1991, were finally found in Iraq after eighteen years.
Eighteen months later his wife Joanne remarried his friend Buddy Harris, a fellow US navy pilot.But uncertainty over his fate and the failure to locate any remains led his status to be changed several times to "missing in action" and later "missing-captured". 
After the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the discovery of what appeared to be the initials "MSS" on a prison cell wall raised hopes he had been captured and might be alive.
Family spokeswoman Cindy Laquidara said relatives learned on Saturday that Speicher’s remains had been found. “The family’s proud of the way the Defense Department continued on with our request” to not abandon the search, she said. “We will be bringing him home.”
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Michael Scott Speicher Photo : US navy pilot and the first American combat casualty
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