Recently identified Korean War POW from Kentucky laid to rest in New York on Monday

FRANKFORT, Ky. (LEX 18) — The Office of Governor Andy Beshear announced that the governor has ordered flags at all state building to be lowered to half-staff on Monday in honor of a Kentucky soldier who died during the Korean War.

A press release from the governor's office detailed that the flags will be lowered from sunrise to sunset on Monday to honor U.S. Army Sergeant 1st Class Raymond E. Hall whose remains were officially identified in May 2024.

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The release described that Sgt. Hall of Mountain Ash, Kentucky was a member of Charlie Company, 1st Battallion, 19th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division.

"All they know was he was in North Korea, and there was nothing they could do but they would never stop trying to find him, they really stayed true to their word and here we are 74 years later," said Raymond Hall, the POW's grandson and namesake.

Hall's grandson, speaking on behalf of his family, “they just desperately wanted him home, they desperately wanted him to have a funeral.”

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For more than seven decades - Sgt. Hall was in an unknown soldier's grave in Hawaii after he was killed in North Korea in a massacre of 75 soldiers.

Monday a graveside service and interment took place at Calverton National Cemetery in Calverton, New York.

Find more information on Sgt. Hall on the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency website.