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Patricia Scharf, widow of Air Force Col. Charles Scharf, addresses the audience during a POW/MIA ceremony at the Pentagon, Sept. 21, 2007. Colonel Scharf, an F-4C Phantom II pilot, was shot down over Vietnam on Oct. 1, 1965. Fragments of Scharf's remains were identified last year using DNA from love letters he had sent to his wife. Photo by Cherie A. Thurlby

Patricia Scharf, widow of Air Force Col. Charles Scharf, addresses the audience during a POW/MIA ceremony at the Pentagon, Sept. 21, 2007. Colonel Scharf, an F-4C Phantom II pilot, was shot down over Vietnam on Oct. 1, 1965. Fragments of Scharf's remains were identified last year using DNA from love letters he had sent to his wife. Photo by Cherie A. Thurlby

Patricia Scharf, widow of Air Force Col. Charles Scharf, addresses the audience during a POW/MIA ceremony at the Pentagon, Sept. 21, 2007. Colonel Scharf, an F-4C Phantom II pilot, was shot down over Vietnam on Oct. 1, 1965. Fragments of Scharf's remains were identified last year using DNA from love letters he had sent to his wife. Photo by Cherie A. Thurlby

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