KANSAS CITY, Mo., May 28 (UPI) -- The body of a Kansas City man returned home Thursday, 64 years after he was killed in World War II and a day after the Army shipped the wrong remains.
Private Henry "Rickey" Marquez is to be buried Saturday with military honors, The Kansas City Star reported. Marquez went missing in a German forest in 1945.
The body that arrived Wednesday was escorted to Highland Park Cemetery by police, soldiers from Fort Leavenworth and a phalanx of motorcyclists with the Patriot Guard. When the casket got to the cemetery, someone noticed it was not Marquez.
The procession was repeated Thursday when Marquez's remains were shipped from Hawaii. A lab there identifies bodies of military personnel from all wars.
John Clark Marquez of Kansas City, Kan., Rickey Marquez's brother, said everyone was lined up at the cemetery and wondered about the delay. But he was philosophical about the mix-up.
"It was a shock and a disappointment," Marquez said. "I didn't feel angry. It was bizarre. I've been around long enough that things happen in life, and things go wrong. This is one of those things that went wrong."
The Army did not tell the family whose body was shipped Wednesday or how the confusion occurred.
