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With the sound of over 40 motorcycles revving their engines at full throttle, Evelyn Snyder sat quietly in the front seat of a vintage hearse with her brother, finally home, in the back.
By WILLIAM COLE | The Honolulu Star-Advertiser | Published: May 23, 2021 HONOLULU (Tribune News Service) The Defense POW /MIA Accounting Agency said it has talked with the Navy about disinterring 94 sailors from the famed battleship USS Arizona who are buried as unknowns at Punchbowl cemetery in Honolulu. But not for identification and potential return to families, as is the usual case, and has been done with hundreds of other unknowns at Punchbowl officially named the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. The accounting agency disinterred 388 from the USS Oklahoma in 2015. It has exhumed casualties from the USS West Virginia and USS California and the 1943 Battle of Tarawa and hundreds from the Korean War for identification.
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A casket with an unknown U.S. service member is set on a truck during a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency disinterment ceremony at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, Hawaii, May 3, 2021. (Jacqueline Clifford/U.S. Marine Corps)
23 May 2021 Chattanooga Times Free Press, Tenn. | By Patrick Filbin
With the sound of over 40 motorcycles revving their engines at full throttle, Evelyn Snyder sat quietly in the front seat of a vintage hearse with her brother, finally home, in the back.
Snyder stared stoically ahead waiting for her driver. It s been a long 70 years since she and her family felt closure.