Thursday, December 16, 2010

World War II Soldier, Missing for 88 Years, Is Buried

From the Dec. 10th WHTM ABC 27 in Pennsylvania.

Fourteen military funerals a day are held at the Fort Indiantown Gap National Cemetery, but this one was different as it was a World War I soldier, only the second from that war to be buried at the place which opened in 1982.

Private Henry Weikel was killed during fierce fighting in a French forest in 1918. His remains were not discovered until 2006 and it then took the military four years to identify the body.

Private Weikel was even forgotten by his family. No one at his funeral had ever met or spoken with him.

I Think It is Great That the United States Never Stops Looking for the Remains of Those Missing Heroes. --Cooter

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