According to Bobbie Reno, the court-martial was illegal. Helms should have been punished for going AWOL, not executed for desertion.
Modern scientific research tools have been deployed to locate Helms' possible burial spot. Ground penetrating radar swept the elementary school's athletic field last year and identified several possible locations for graves. Bobbie Reno is attempting to track down Helms' descendants for possible DNA matches.
In order to verify the possible locations, a subsurface investigation is needed and it is the Army policy not to disturb burials of the fallen when possible.
However, reno has noted that soldiers remains have been disturbed in other parts of New York.
On June 14 there will be a ceremony at the state's Lake George Battlefield Park for the reinterment of remains of Continental soldiers who died during the American Revolution. These remains were uncovered during a construction project in 2019.
They were believed to have been buried in a cemetery for soldiers who did at a nearby hospital. The ceremony is sponsored by the State Department of Environmental Conservation and the Courtland Street Reinterment Project.
--Brock-Perry
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