Father of Ohio soldier missing since 2004 says Army confirms son's death in Iraq

SGT Matt Maupin's remains found

Associated Press - March 30, 2008 7:43 PM ET

BATAVIA, Ohio (AP) - The father of a soldier listed as missing-captured in Iraq since 2004 says the military has informed him that his son's remains were found in Iraq.

Keith Maupin says an Army general told him Sunday that DNA was used to identify the remains of his son, Sgt. Keith Matthew Maupin, who went by "Matt."

Matt Maupin was a 20-year-old private first class when he was captured April 9, 2004, after his fuel convoy was ambushed west of Baghdad.

Arab television network Al-Jazeera aired a videotape a week later showing Maupin sitting on the floor surrounded by five masked men holding automatic rifles.

That June, Al-Jazeera aired another tape purporting to show a U.S. soldier being shot. But the dark and grainy tape showed only the back of the victim's head and not the actual shooting.

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As a disabled Infantry Staff Sergeant I am glad that he will now be able to come home the be buried as he deserves, either at home in Ohio or at Arlington, his family has been thru hell during the past 4 years, while he has remained missing, most of us had assumed he had been killed, but you never really know until the body is found. Sometimes the bodies are never found, there are still soldiers from WW2, Korea and Vietnam that have never been brought home, and their families have never had closure. The Maupin family has earned this entire nations respect and admiration for the stoicism and their loss, they're son's loss belongs to all of us as a nation. I SALUTE SGT Matt Maupin, I am glad your family now has closure, welcome back......

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