Capt. Michael "Scott" Speicher's body finally identified

I've been following the story of Capt. Michael "Scott" Speicher for quite a few years, occasionally mentioning that he was still missing and that his family really did not know for certain if he was dead or alive.

That has finally ended, as I read in my local paper, the Blade, this Associated Press piece, Remains of pilot missing 18 years in Iraq found.

WASHINGTON — The remains of the first American lost in the Gulf War have been found in Iraq, the military said Sunday, a sorrowful resolution of a nearly two-decade old question about the fate of Navy Capt. Michael "Scott" Speicher.

The Pentagon said the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology on Saturday positively identified the remains, buried in the desert and located after officials received new information from an Iraqi citizen about a crash.

Speicher's disappearance has bedeviled investigators since his fighter was shot down over the Iraq desert on the first night of the 1991 war.