As a veteran with more than 35 years on active duty, I believe there should be a point when we stop searching for military personnel missing from past wars.  World War II ended 72 years ago.  If remains are found and identified, it is becoming increasingly difficult or impossible to find a close living relative to accept them.  Moreover, what are called remains often times are bone fragments no larger than a fingernail which are placed in full-size caskets for transportation to relatives and burial.  The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency met its quota in 2017 by the disinterment of the USS Oklahoma’s 388 casualties from Pearl Harbor buried as “unknowns” at Punchbowl.  What’s next to meet the quota?  Do they now go after those entombed in the USS Arizona?  How about the several hundred unknowns from WW II buried in military cemeteries in Europe?  Oh, let’s not forget the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington.   Will anything be off limits in quest of a quota?