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In a cemetery amid the cornfields of downstate Illinois last month, a military honor guard fired shots in salute before the remains of World War II veteran Keith Tipsword was lowered into the ground.
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BEECHER CITY — Rev. Brett Sapp said funerals are typically somber occasions but the one on Tuesday for his uncle, U.S. Navy Machinist's Mate 1st Class Keith Tipsword, was also
Navy veteran Petty Officer 1st Class Keith Tipsword was 27 when he was killed while serving on the battleship USS West Virginia during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. Tipsword’s remains had been buried as an unknown in Hawaii, but they were identified by DNA testing.