Town Turns Out to Lay World War II Veteran to Rest in Kentucky
Source: Getty Images Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, Ky. | By James Mayse LEWISPORT — The streets leading into the town of Lewisport were lined with American flags Saturday as Navy Fireman 2nd Class Martin D. Young was laid to rest, after almost 80 years away from home. Young, a sailor with the battleship USS Oklahoma, was killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. Except for the few surviving members of "The Greatest Generation," the story of Pearl Harbor and World War II is known mostly through histo...
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