A 21-year-old sailor will be laid to rest following a decades-long effort to identify remains pulled from Pearl Harbor.
By DON BABWIN, Associated Press CHICAGO — A 21-year-old sailor will be laid to rest on Tuesday following a decades-long effort to identify remains pulled from Pearl Harbor, more than 80 years after he was killed in the attack that propelled the United States into World War II.
"This has kind of been an unsolved mystery and it gives us closure to finally know what happened to Bert, where he is and that he's being finally laid to rest after being listed as an unknown for so long," said Brad McDonald, a nephew.
That gave new hope to Jacobson family members, who had been disappointed by each failed effort. They told the AP that Jacobson's mother cried every Dec. 7, at least in part because she never knew where he was.The 2015 effort, Project Oklahoma, has led to the identification of 355 men — including Jacobson — who were killed when their ship was hit by at least nine torpedoes. That leaves 33 sets of remains still to be identified.
McDonald said a good friend of his uncle's from the Navy said he was pretty sure Jacobson"was asleep in his bunk and died before he even knew a war was going on. But we don't really know."The answer came in 2019, when McDonald said the family was notified that Jacobson's remains had been identified. Hoping the burial could take place the next year, they were forced to wait, in large part because the COVID-19 pandemic delayed most gatherings, funerals included.
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