From the November 10, 2020, East Bay Times by Peter Hagarty. San Mateo, California.
A U.S. Marine has come to his final resting place decades after gunfire cut him down as he was defending this nation thousands of miles from home.
Howard Miller died during the grueling Island Hopping Campaign across the Pacific as Americans moved closer and closer to striking distance against Japan. Back then, his brothers in arms lowered the 22-year-old private first class into an unmarked grave on Betio, a little-known island that is part of the Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands.
His remains were flown into San Francisco where active-duty Marines in full dress blues moved the casket and it was then transported to San Mateo for burial.
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