{"id":50707,"date":"2018-06-17T22:57:27","date_gmt":"2018-06-17T22:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2018\/06\/17\/chicago-soldier-killed-in-korea-finally-being-laid-to-rest\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T03:46:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T03:46:23","slug":"chicago-soldier-killed-in-korea-finally-being-laid-to-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/news\/your-army\/2018\/06\/17\/chicago-soldier-killed-in-korea-finally-being-laid-to-rest\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago soldier killed in Korea finally being laid to rest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CHICAGO \u2014 Not long after her father went missing during the Korean War, Carol Elkin spotted then-Gen. Dwight Eisenhower in downtown Chicago and did what any kid might do when coming face to face with the nation\u2019s most famous soldier: She asked him to bring her dad home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Tuesday, the now 76-year-old Elkin will be at Arlington National Cemetery to bury the remains of Army Maj. Stephen Uurtamo, nearly seven decades after he was taken prisoner by the Chinese and died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is a chance to say goodbye to her father, watch as his remains are laid to rest with the dignity and honor he deserves, and watch her children and grandchildren see that their own history is linked to the history of their country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis tells my family they are part of something,\u201d said the retiree, who lives on Chicago\u2019s North Side with her husband. \u201cI just think that these kids might think we went from World War II to Vietnam and they don\u2019t even know there was a Korean War.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The service comes as questions about the whereabouts of those who never returned from the 1950-53 war have pushed their way into the news, with the commitment by President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/veterans\/2018\/06\/11\/vets-want-trump-to-make-korean-war-casualties-a-summit-priority\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">recover the remains<\/a> of as many of the nearly 7,700 U.S. troops that are still unaccounted for as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/flashpoints\/2018\/06\/12\/trump-kim-agree-to-repatriating-us-military-remains-from-korean-war\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18163278203190.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Trump, Kim agree to repatriating US military remains from Korean War<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The most tangible outcome of Tuesday\u2019s summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un appeared to be a commitment to recover the remains of U.S. military personnel missing in action and presumed dead from the Korean War.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the Uurtamo family, the service is the final chapter of a story that began in late 1950 when the 32-year-old career soldier was declared missing in action after fierce fighting in one of the bloodiest battles of the war near the Ch\u2019ongch\u2019on River in North Korea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was declared dead after several returning U.S. prisoners of war reported that Uurtamo had been captured and died at a war transient camp where prisoners who survived came home with stories of watching their buddies starve to death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe died from malnutrition and pneumonia,\u201d Elkin said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The whereabouts of his body remained a mystery for decades. Then, in 2005, a joint U.S. and North Korean military recovery team recovered 32 sets of remains from a burial site. About eight years after that, Elkin went to a Chicago hotel for one of the events the Defense POW\/MIA Accounting Agency holds around the country in which people like her are updated about their missing loved ones and given a chance to provide DNA samples for comparison with DNA pulled from recovered remains.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/flashpoints\/2018\/04\/06\/trump-kim-summit-may-boost-recovery-of-us-korea-war-remains\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/EXAXGIWND5D7FALGG3ZLF7H2JM.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Trump, Kim summit may boost recovery of US Korea War remains<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">More than six decades after the troops died for their country, the repatriation of the remains of thousands of U.S. military personnel missing in action and presumed dead from the Korean War may finally get a boost now that President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un are expected to hold the first-ever summit between their countries.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The match came last September and with it, Uurtamo\u2019s name was taken off the list of Americans unaccounted for from the Korean War, which now stands at 7,697 names. He added to the list of 459 people whose remains have been identified since 1982. And, according to the POW\/MIA agency, the spot where his name appears on the Courts of the Missing at the National Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu will be affixed with a rosette to indicate he\u2019s now accounted for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elkin said she, her husband and more than 30 relatives will attend the burial. Inside the casket will be his remains, dress uniform and his medals, she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elkin said it is a chance to be openly proud of the father, whom she rarely talked about because he died in a war few seemed to care about, and her parents were divorced and \u201cyou didn\u2019t talk about things like that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, she said, she can talk about her father and her most lasting memory: a day when she was young and he visited her in the hospital and told her not to cry because \u201clittle soldiers don\u2019t cry.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She is excited by the prospect of her father being buried in \u201chis rightful place\u201d in the most famous military cemetery in the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI am proud that our country would do this for someone who served so long ago \u2014 that he gets to go out in a blaze of glory,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not long after her father went missing during the Korean War, Carol Elkin spotted then-Gen. 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