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The Department of Defense had undertaken the arduous task of disinterring and sorting through the commingled skeletons.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2024

After the war, American teams began disinterring those remains and trying to identify them.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 31, 2022

The celebration is believed to have its roots in the Uru Chipaya custom of disinterring the bodies of loved ones at the one-year anniversary of their death.

From Reuters • Nov. 9, 2021

He rounded out the end of the war in the Philippines, where he and his outfit were tasked with disinterring the bodies of American servicemen killed on the island.

From Washington Times • Jul. 10, 2016

In the years between the First World War and the disinterring of Luigi Boccherini’s bones, music’s family had expanded prolifically.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall