After 75 years, remains of North Texas soldier missing in Korean War finally come home

A Denton County family is preparing to do something Thursday that they have waited 75 years to do: bury the remains of a loved one who went missing during the Korean War.

Sonny Tischler grew up outside Celina in the 1930s and ’40s, helping his father on the family farm until he enlisted in the Army just before the start of the Korean War.

“He said I’m going to go ahead and volunteer, and then I can get it over with and then get my own farm,” said Melva Doris Faulk, Tischler’s sister…

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