Modern science threatens to destroy one of our nation's most honored and cherished traditions.
Maybe it's about time. I am talking about the Tomb of the Unknowns. Thanks to new genetic testing methods, the previously unidentifiable remains of a serviceman killed in the Vietnam War have been identified as Air Force 1st Lt. Michael J. Blassie , a pilot shot down over South Vietnam. But Blassie's family was convinced that the bones belonged to the lieutenant, whose papers were apparently found with the remains but later lost.