Dead or Alive?

Military may declare missing soldier dead after being captured a year ago Saturday.

Where is Matt Maupin? He is the only American soldier unaccounted for in Iraq, and that is a question his parents have been asking.

Video had surfaced of his capture on April 16 of 2004. He is shown in uniform and unharmed. On the tape, one of the gunmen was heard saying: "Some of our groups managed to capture one of the American soldiers, and he is one of many others. He is being treated according to the treatment of prisoners in the Islamic religion and he is in good health... We are keeping him to be exchanged for some of the prisoners captured by the occupation forces".

Three months later al Jazeera claimed they had received videotaped and written statements showing militants killed the kidnapped U.S. soldier.

There is no confirmation at this time, that the al Jazeera tape contained footage of Matt Maupin or any other Army soldier.

Fellow captive recalls bloody chaos of a year ago

Try as he may, Thomas Hamill simply cannot remember seeing then-Pfc. Keith "Matt" Maupin that bloody day a year ago when all hell broke loose on their convoy in Iraq, and both became prisoners of the Iraqi insurgents.

Lance Cpl. Micah Maupin, Matt's younger brother, wants to go to Iraq - for the adventure, because he feels a duty as a Marine, and on some days, because he feels compelled to search for his brother.

Matt is currently listed as "captured" and his parents would like to keep it that way.

Maupin was recently promoted to Sergeant, his second promotion since his capture.