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Podcast: Walk Among Heroes
Episode: Walk Among Heroes Podcast Episode 27: Paul Benischek (US Army, Graves Registration)
Description: We (Walk Among Heroes) are pleased to welcome Paul and June Benischek as our guests for Episode 27. Paul (93) and June (91) are lifelong farmers who currently reside in Anamosa, Iowa. Paul served in the United States Army immediately following World War II in a Graves Registration unit. He deployed to Okinawa with the mission of finding, retrieving, cleaning, and transporting the bodies of American’s fallen heroes back to the United States. From searching through caves, tracking down plane wrecks, and digging up mass graves, Paul single-handedly processed and returned thousands of bodies to the United States. An incredibly difficult aspect...