Sergeant Lejeune was a Light Weapons Infantryman with Company K, 3rd Battalion, 35th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division. He was taken Prisoner of War while fighting the enemy in North Korea on November 28, 1950 and died while a prisoner on March 31, 1951. His remains were not recovered at the time. Through the work of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, the remains of Sgt. Kermit J. Lejeune were accounted for in 2017. His name is permanently inscribed in the “Courts of the Missing” at the Honolulu Memorial.