It’s a long overdue homecoming for the remains of a Perry County man who died in the
Korean War.
The Hazard Herald reports the remains of Army PFC Rodger Engle Fields were recently positively identified and plans have been made for him to be laid to rest in
the Kentucky Veterans Cemetery South East in Hyden on August 14.
Fields was just 20 years old when he was killed in action in 1950 while serving with D Company, 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division.