Biological evidence sometimes lacking in identifying remains：By Associated Press

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HONOLULU (AP) _ About one-tenth of official identifications of remains believed to be those of U-S military personnel lack any biological evidence.

That's according to Thomas Holland -- the scientific director of the Joint P-O-W/M-I-A Accounting Command at Hickam Air Force Base.

Of the one-thousand-260 servicemen declared recovered and identified since 1973, Holland says at least ten percent had no distinctly verified remains.

Instead, he says investigators use testimony, archival documents and such evidence as a piece of uniform or an identification tag to tie the individual to the remains.

Holland says that in many cases, a handful of commingled remains -- which may not actually contain parts of the identified serviceman -- are buried under a group gravestone.

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