Lakota man helps brings lost soldiers home

Tuesday, May 1, 2007  

Sgt. Kili Bald Eagle, a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of South Dakota, has spent the last two years assigned to the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command.

Bald Eagle, 31, helps the unit find lost soldiers. He has traveled to Laos, Vietnam and Austria to help recover fallen service members.

"To know that if I was to fall in combat, someone just like myself would recover me and take as much pride as I would when I do this," Bald Eagle told The Sioux Falls Argus Leader. "It's just really a respect for those who have gone before you."

Bald Eagle comes from a long military tradition. His father served in World War II and his great-grandfather led one of the attacks at Little Big Horn.

Based in North Carolina, Bald Eagle is married and has two kids, with another one on the way.

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Soldier helps Bring lost American souls home (The Sioux Falls Argus Leader 5/1)

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