Every American who had a son returned owes a debt of gratitude to graves registrations, the French , and the Black American troops. I won't give you the gory details involved in the process, but I will tell you they were handled with loving care and wrapped or swaddled in new cloth upon their exhumation and examinations and preparations for shipment home. Personal effects which were buried (in bottles) were added to accompany them home (for those who had possibly been moved several times ). There are films of the work out there. I've been working on a local MIA, the soldier with him also an MIA was found, after three moves was sent home to Texas. My guy is still missing. Thousands upon thousands of soldiers were never found, they simply became part of the earth, sinking in to the morass of mud. Their names are inscribed on walls and memorials, they are not forgotten but remembered. It's a slow process but in the past couple years a few hundred soldiers from both sides of the conflict have been found, as recent as this past Nov. some Brits were reburied and a few identified. We await some battlefield grave removal sketches to see if one of the unknowns is ours that lies in the American Flanders Cemetery.
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