The month and year Sgt Paul Adams went missing - June 1972 - is the month and year that Wentworth Miller (the actor who portrays him) was born.
In the pilot, Melinda looks for a name on a war memorial in the town square. The same name - "Lt. Ryan Beeman" (not the name she is looking for) - is the top name on two sides of the monument - under both "Gulf War" and "Vietnam War."
Wentworth Miller who plays Sgt. Adams in this episode refers that his fathers name was Michael, as is his sons name in this episode. Miller went on to play a Michael Scofield in the show Prison Break (2005).