Those discharged from service during the past week and reported to The Monitor were:
William Meyers, Manning
Vinton B. Paulsen, Manning
Maxine Prickett, Manning
LaVerne Schroeder, Aspinwall
John Cooper, Manilla

Local posts will provide an honor guard to meet the body; provide a firing squad for the burial service; provide color bearers for the service; the services of the post chaplain and an official bugler if one is needed; sponsor a memorial service for the honored dead.
Through the post service officers extend any and every assistance to the next of kin in connection with any death or burial benefits, claims for compensation or insurance, securing a government furnished upright headstone of marble or granite or a flat marker.

Specialists are continuing an extensive search of all battle grounds and areas in order to locate missing persons who at this writing are listed as follows:
Army 12,000,
navy 6,739;
marine corps 739
and coast guard; 86,
a total of 19,564.

Classes of war dead to be returned include:
Members of the armed forces of the United States who died in service; civilian officers and employees of the United States; citizens of the United States who served in the armed forces of any government at war with Germany, Italy or Japan and who died while in such service and who were citizens of the United States at the time of such service.

Citizens of the United States whose homes were in fact in the United States and whose depth outside the continental limits thereof can be directly attributed to the war or who died while employed or otherwise engaged in activities contributing to the prosecution of the war.

Under this legislation, the army, navy, marine corps and coast guard will poll the next of kin of all American dead buried overseas as to their desires. The poll of the next of kin will include families of government employees, American Red Cross dead, the war shipping administration dead, deceased newspaper correspondents and other civilian dead who had permission to be in war zones.

The poll of the next of kin will offer them four choices:
1. Burial may be in permanent American military cemeteries overseas.
2. Bodies may be returned to the United States for burial in a national cemetery, restricted to the armed forces, to be selected by next of kin.
3. Bodies may be returned to the United States or any possession or territory for burial by next of kin in a private cemetery; the government paying up to $50 of the internment expense.
4. Bodies may be sent to a foreign country, the homeland of the deceased, for interment in a private cemetery when permission can be obtained.

Cost of the returning these bodies it is estimated will be between $195,000,000 and $215,000,000 averaging about $700 per body. After the first world war the bodies of 6,310 of the 77,901 American battle dead overseas were returned to the United States for final interment.

328,000 Died
More than 328,000 American soldiers and sailors died in action during world war II. Of these 261,058 are buried in recorded graves, 241,500 in 356 established cemeteries overseas, and 18,558 in isolated graves. It is estimated that 30,980 additional burials are still to be located and reported. Others were lost at sea or otherwise not recovered.

The war department has defined next of kin as the person most closely related to the deceased. The order in which the family relationship runs usually is-widow, son, daughter, father, mother, brother, sister, grandfather, grandmother. If the deceased were married the surviving spouse has the first and final preference. The government assumes all cost in getting the body to the final burying place and an additional amount up to $50.

An American flag will accompany each casket and upon interment the flag will be given to the next of kin. Escorts will be furnished by the government to accompany the remains from the distribution center to destination. The escort will be of the same branch of service, color, religion and rank or grade of the deceased, as conditions permit.