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The tradition of ensuring every soldier is accounted for dates back to the early American military. During the French-American War, Rogers' Rangers adopted a policy to unconditionally account for each member—an idea that persisted through history, eventually becoming a core military ethos. During wartime, the public became acutely aware of missing soldiers due to wartime media coverage and Hollywood films dramatizing these efforts. This transparency fostered national resolve and reinforced the moral obligation to recover "every man."