American MIA group and Filipino Muslim government unite to bring home World War II servicemen

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For several generations, the rain-soaked soils of Mindanao Island have slowly swallowed the remains of scores of American and Filipino soldiers who vanished in the chaos and brutality of World War II.

Now, however, a…