M a r k D i l l e y

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What Would Dick Think? (WWDT): "On January 17, 1991, Speicher's plane was hit by an air-to-air missile over Iraq's western desert. On the basis of the evidence (e.g. no signs of ejection or parachute, no activation of rescue beacon, fellow pilots saw his plane explode in a ball of flame and blow apart), he was officially declared killed in action.

Speicher remained K.I.A. for ten years, until January 2001, when the secretary of the Navy changed his status to M.I.A. Sen. Pat Roberts (R Kansas), an advocate for regime change in Iraq, was the prime mover behind the change.

On scanty and dubious evidence, Speicher's status went to 'probably survived' in March 2002 to 'missing/captured' on October 11, 2002, the day after Congress authorized military action in Iraq, becoming just the second person in human history to rise from the dead (Praise the Lord). In the 10 years since his disappearance, he had also been promoted twice to the rank of captain."