A 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 U.S. into World War II.
. The casket containing his remains will be interred at Arlington National Cemetery.
“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 will be 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.
“We now have the ability to forensically test these remains and produce the identifications,” Debra Prince Zinni, a forensic anthropologist and laboratory manager at the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency in Hawaii, told The Associated Press at the time.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.
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