Memorials, Congress - Urges Congress to bring home the remains of the USS Intrepid sailors entombed in Libya. -

HJR 727 is a memorial resolution urging the U.S. Congress to pass legislation for the repatriation of thirteen USS Intrepid sailors' remains. The sailors died in 1804 during the Barbary War, and their burial sites in Libya (five in Tripoli's Protestant Cemetery and eight near Tripoli Castle) have faced desecration over centuries. The resolution requests Congress enact measures to exhume the remains, identify them if possible, and reinter them with military honors in a U.S. veterans cemetery or Arlington National Cemetery. As a non-binding resolution, it does not create new law but formally asks Congress to act.