Bush, returning to the White House from a weekend at Camp David, Maryland, said the United States would continue to search and pray for remaining missing troops.

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Two Turkish troops are still missing after the weekend fighting, and the Turkish military said Sunday they were feared dead.

CNN: Turkish airstrikes target Kurdish rebels

It also emerged on Monday that a member of the UN peacekeeping force monitoring the ceasefire between Israeli and Syrian troops in the demilitarised Golan Heights was missing.

BBC: Syrian rebel fighters (30 January 2013)

Gertz quotes John Shaw, the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for International Technology Security, who contends - based on information from two reliable European intelligence services - that Russian troops and Iraqi intelligence "almost certainly" removed the missing material from the facility.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

We've seen the huge burden of eight years of war on our troops -- tour after tour, year after year, missing out on moments that every parent treasures: a baby's first steps, the first words, the day the training wheel comes off the bike, birthdays, anniversaries.

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The situation in Japan was much the same: a country with a disciplined, homogenous population, no allies, sealed borders, its cities half burnt, more than three million dead, a million wounded, missing, or captured, its revered emperor having capitulated, and nearly half a million troops in occupation.

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