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'We wish we could have known you': Minneapolis WWII vet finally comes home


Mourned by nieces who never knew him, long-missing WWII soldier buried at Fort Snelling
They only knew Uncle Billy from letters and stories. After 77 years, his family welcomed him home. 
July 16, 2021 8:58pm
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As a kid, Kathy Salisbury Massie would visit her grandmother s house just south of Lake Harriett, go to the attic and spend time with the uncle she d never met.
In the attic were Uncle Billy s Army trunk, and Uncle Billy s Purple Heart, and nearly 50 letters Uncle Billy had sent home from World War II.
Second Lt. William H. Melville of the U.S. Army Air Forces, a 1941 graduate of Roosevelt High School, had died at age 20 in a plane crash over the island of New Guinea in 1943. His remains were never found. As the little girl read through those letters, though, Uncle Billy came alive: his love of flying, his desire to get married, and his excitement to meet his ....

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Duty Calls: Honor Guard funerals far fewer in 2020


Duty Calls: Honor Guard funerals far fewer in 2020
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New York Army  National Guard Sgt. Joshua Sanzo a member of the northern district Honor Guard, salutes the casket of Victor Frager during a military funeral in 2018 at the Gerald B. Solomon National Cemetery, Schuylerville.Spc. Andrew Valenza / New York Army National Guard
Scores of New York National Guard Honor Guard soldiers and airmen had far less military funerals to perform last year and the elite soldiers and airmen had to adjust the way they performed their duties.
Pandemic restrictions on funeral services have resulted in New York Army and Air National Guard Honor Guard teams providing more than 2,000 fewer military funeral services in 2020 than in 2019, according to Eric Durr, state Division of Military and Naval Affairs spokesman. ....

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