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Body of 2nd Missing US Sailor Found in Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan (July 29) -- A second U.S. Navy sailor who went missing in a dangerous part of eastern Afghanistan was found dead and his body recovered, a senior U.S. military official and Afghan officials said Thursday. The family of Petty Officer 3rd Class Jarod Newlove, a 25-year-old from the Seattle area, had been...

Background on recovered

Recovered or Regained Territories (, literally "Regained Lands") was an official term used by the People's Republic of Poland to describe those parts of pre-war Germany (and the Free City of Danzig) that became part of Poland after World War II. The rationale for the term "Recovered" was that these territories had been part of (or fiefs of) the Polish state at various times in history, mostly during the rule of the medieval Piast dynasty. Over the centuries they had become Germanized through the processes of German eastward settlement (Ostsiedlung) and political expansion (Drang nach Osten). The term "Recovered Territories" had already been similarly used by the Second Polish Republic in 1938, in reference to the parts of Cieszyn Silesia it annexed from Czechoslovakia after the Munich Agreement.

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