Today marks the 81st anniversary of the Day of Infamy as FDR so aptly stated it. I will devote seven of my blogs to its memory.
From the September 8, 2022, Lake County (Illinois) Journal "Grayslake sailor killed at Pearl Harbor to be buried September 13 in Arlington National Cemetery" by Jami Kunzer.
'We've been waiting a long time for this,' nephew says of effort to lay uncle at rest.
A moment more than eight decades in the making will happen for the family of a Grayslake sailor killed during the December 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor.
On September 13, the remains of Herbert Jacobson, a U.S. Navy Fireman 3rd Class stationed aboard the battleship USS Oklahoma, will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, right outside of Washington, D.C..
"After 81 years, we're finally laying our uncle to rest," said Brad McDonald of North Carolina, a nephew of Jacobson and one of about a dozen family members planning to attend the burial in Virginia. The ceremony will include a horse-drawn carriage, gun salute and official flag presentation.
Continued in My Running the Blockade: Civil War Navy blog.
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