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During WWII a Japanese Kamikaze hit the USS Missouri and his body landed on deck. Though an unpopular decision, the Captain demanded a proper burial for the Japanese soldier. He explained to his crew that: after death, he is no longer your enemy, and the crew hand stitched a Japanese flag.

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After he was shot down and killed during WWI, the Red Baron was given full military honors by the Allies, including a proper burial near Amiens.

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1. The First Prime Minister of East Timor was shot and killed when Indonesia invaded. What then happened to his body is unknown, but the East-Timorese government continues to pursue the issue with the Indonesian government, so that his remains can be given a proper burial.

2. Colonel James Walker Fannin, made three requests to the soldiers who would kill him during the Goliad massacre: Don’t shoot him in the head, give his possessions to his family, and give him a proper burial. He was shot in the face, looted by the soldiers, and burned like all the other men.

3. A US propaganda campaign against the Vietcong, Operation Wandering Soul, which intended to make Vietcong soldiers believe the souls of their fallen compatriots were haunting them after not getting a proper burial.

4. The police kept Adam Walsh's, John Walsh's Son (the host of America's Most Wanted) severed head denying him a proper burial for 26 years while they completely botched the investigation.

5. ZAKA are volunteer emergency response teams in Israel. Members are mostly Orthodox Jews. They collect body parts and blood for proper Jewish burials. Non-Jewish victim parts are also collected and returned to their families. They also help with the identification of victims.

6. The early Roman monarchy had a law that if a man were killed by a thunderbolt, he could not have a proper burial, and anyone who did so would be executed.

7. A US Navy sailor carried his deceased child's remains on to the USS Utah for burial at sea; the remains were entombed in the Utah when it was bombed in Pearl Harbor. A proper funeral was finally held for the child in 2003.

8. Canon law of the Catholic church states that a Catholic burial cannot be given to "notorious apostates, heretics, and schismatics" and "manifest sinners" whose burial would cause a "public scandal of the faithful". Until 1969 unbaptised babies were also denied a proper Catholic burial.