Remains of Scott Speicher (FSU grad) found in Iraq

[parent2noles]

<p>The remains of U.S. Navy Captain Scott Speicher have finally been found in Iraq. He has been missing some 18 years.</p>

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The Pentagon said the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology on Saturday had positively identified the remains of Navy Capt. Michael “Scott” Speicher, whose disappearance has bedeviled investigators since his fighter jet was shot down over the Iraq desert on the first night of the 1991 war.

See: [Remains</a> of pilot missing 18 years in Iraq found - Yahoo! News](<a href=“http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090802/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_gulf_war_missing_pilot]Remains”>http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090802/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_gulf_war_missing_pilot)</p>

<p>FSU honored the sacrifice of Captain Speicher, a 1980 graduate of Florida State University, by [naming</a> the new (in 1993) tennis center after him](<a href=“http://www.fsu.edu/~fstime/FS-Times/Volume6/feb01web/4feb01.html]naming”>http://www.fsu.edu/~fstime/FS-Times/Volume6/feb01web/4feb01.html).</p>

[blueskymom]

<p>i saw this story on the news but didnt realize he was a Nole. MAy this discovery bring his family some peace. God bless the troops and thier families.</p>