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History Daily plus other fantastic history podcasts at IntoHistory.com. Why do we study history?

A very common answer and a correct one is to understand the present,

because history repeats itself, what, at the very least, it rhymes.

But what if an investigation of history can change the present?

We're sharing a clip from a podcast today that did just that. Unsolved History's first season is an eight-part investigation into

what happened to Flight 293. This Northwest Orient Airlines flight was chartered by the military

to carry servicemen and families from Accord Air Force Base in Washington State to

Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage, Alaska. The flight took off on June 3rd, 1963,

but never made it to its destination, crashing into the Gulf of Alaska. Of the 101 people on board,

there were no known survivors, and crucially, no bodies were ever recovered.

That is tragic enough, but because the service members on board were not missing in action,

as defined by the armed services, they were not remembered or memorialized, and the grieving

families were not given the support typically provided to other MIA families.

And here is how the past has changed the present,

because a current U.S. Senator was listening to this podcast,

and as a result, the Flight 293 Remembrance Act has been proposed and referred to the Committee on Armed Services awaiting passage.

So I hope you enjoy.

And while you're listening, be sure to search for and

follow Unsolved Histories. We put a link in the show notes to make it easy for you.

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