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After 80 Years an Idaho Sailor is Home at Rest

After 80 Years an Idaho Sailor is Home at Rest I know how these people feel.  I went through the same thing four years ago.  In my family, it was an uncle killed in 1943 over Papua New Guinea.  Their situation extended eight long decades.  Arnold M. Nielsen was killed during the attack on Pearl Harbor.  He was serving aboard the USS Oklahoma when it was struck by Japanese planes.  Hundreds of sailors were never identified when their remains were recovered.  Similar to my family’s story, Nielsen for a time was buried in Hawaii’s Punch Bowl. Then I cried about a man I never met.  Freedom isn’t free.

After 80 Years an Idaho Sailor is Home at Rest

After 80 Years an Idaho Sailor is Home at Rest

Stars and Stripes - World War II sailor gets funeral in Idaho after 80 years