Illinois veterans’ remains finally come home from Pearl Harbor after the Navy identifies them using DNA

In a cemetery amid the cornfields of downstate Illinois last month, a military honor guard fired shots in salute before the remains of World War II veteran Keith Tipsword was lowered into the ground.

Here’s a link to the story at Chicago Tribune.

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