‘We never forget:’ Navy to bury sailor killed at Pearl Harbor after decades-long identity quest -
More than 80 years would pass before advances in DNA technology enabled the military to identify the fallen sailor and bring his remains to his final resting place in Arlington National Cemetery, where he will be buried with full military honors on Thursday.
“For us, we never forget,” he said. “We never forget, the sacrifice that people gave for us. This is personal for us because this is a sailor. This is one of ours.” “My mother didn’t talk about it at all,” Mr. Schmidt told The Washington Times. “She grew up in an era where they didn’t take about things like that.”
Efforts to identify the remains of those killed in Pearl Harbor and throughout the Pacific date back to 1947 when the American Graves Registration Service disinterred the remains of U.S. service members from two cemeteries and transferred them to the Central Identification Laboratory at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii.
In 2003, a Pentagon task force stood up to account for Prisoners of War and Missing in Action disinterred the analysis of one of the caskets thought to hold the remains of five unknown sailors from the USS Oklahoma. Further analysis determined that that casket contained the remains of nearly 100 crew members.
“Many of the family members that we ended up dealing with are, you know, getting up there in years themselves,” said Lt. Cmdr. Jory Morr, who served as the Branch Head for the Navy’s POW/MIA command during the USS Oklahoma project.
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