A 21-year-old sailor has been laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery more than 80 years after he was killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
The casket containing his remains was carried Tuesday morning on a horse-drawn caisson led by a military escort before his burial at Arlington National Cemetery, said Amber Vincent, a cemetery spokeswoman.“This has kind of been an unsolved mystery and it gives us closure to finally know what happened to Bert, where he is and that he’s being finally laid to rest after being listed as an unknown for so long,” said Brad McDonald, a nephew.
The service at Arlington was the latest chapter in the story of the man from the small northern Illinois town of Grayslake, for the family that never had a body to bury when he was killed and the scientific quest to put names to the remains of hundreds of personnel from the battleship who lay buried anonymously for decades in a dormant volcanic crater near Pearl Harbor.The battleship remained submerged for two years before it was refloated and bodies were recovered.
That gave new hope to Jacobson family members, who had been disappointed by each failed effort. They told the AP that Jacobson’s mother cried every Dec. 7, at least in part because she never knew where he was.The 2015 effort,
Australia Latest News, Australia Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
21 years later, nation vows again to ‘never forget’ 9/11'It's been 21 years, but it's not 21 years for us. It seems like just yesterday': Bonita Mentis, whose sister died on 9/11.
Read more »
A bipartisan call to give more Pennsylvanians a clean slate | OpinionFour years ago, Pennsylvania was the first state in the nation to adopt a Clean Slate law.
Read more »
Sailor killed at Pearl Harbor to be laid to rest, at lastA 21-year-old sailor is being laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery more than 80 years after he was killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
Read more »
Sailor killed at Pearl Harbor to be laid to rest, at lastA 21-year-old sailor will be laid to rest on Tuesday following a decades-long effort to identify remains pulled from Pearl Harbor, more than 80 years after he was killed in the attack that propelled the United States into World War II. Members of Herbert “Bert” Jacobson's family have waited all their lives to attend a memorial for the young man they knew about but never met. Jacobson was among the more than 400 sailors and Marines killed on the USS Oklahoma during the Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Read more »
Sailor killed at Pearl Harbor to be laid to rest, at lastA 21-year-old sailor will be laid to rest following a decades-long effort to identify remains pulled from Pearl Harbor.
Read more »