Sailor who died at Pearl Harbor to be buried at Arlington

[ificandream]

Source: Associated Press/By MARK PRATT



The remains of a sailor from Massachusetts who died when the USS Oklahoma was struck by multiple torpedoes during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 are being buried at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday.

The interment comes more than 80 years after the attack that drew the U.S. into World War II and nearly four years after the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced that Electrician’s Mate 3rd Class Roman W. Sadlowski, of Pittsfield, had been accounted for using advanced DNA and anthropological analysis, as well as circumstantial and material evidence.

About 15 family members from Massachusetts, Texas and Florida are scheduled to attend the ceremony that was delayed by the coronavirus pandemic, said Joe Makarski Jr., who is Sadlowski’s nephew and who supplied a DNA sample about a decade ago that was used to help identify the remains.

“We’re quite excited,” Makarski, 81, said in a telephone interview. “It’s been a long time, and I am glad to be alive to finalize it.”

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/massachusetts-oklahoma-world-war-ii-attack-on-pearl-harbor-c338e5c818d0e5bca2cbb1982d878b6b

---

A real hero. Not some of the idiots that the Magats worship. Especially that big fat Orange idiot.

[sarge43]

1. Any service person who dies on active duty is eligible for internment at Arlington.

It's right and proper that he should be.

Fair winds and following seas, Sailor.

[Permanut]

2. A salute to Roman..

for his service and his sacrifice, from another Navy vet.

And to his family and all who worked to see that he was identified and cared for in the end.

[11 Bravo]

3. Fair winds and following seas, sailor.

My Dad, a fighter pilot in WWII and Korea, lies in that same hallowed ground.
Rest easy.