About 10 years ago, the government started identifying the remains using modern forensics such as DNA and have had much success. The majority of the Oklahoma's Unknown are now known, including Malcom, Leroy and Randolph Barber.
The Barber brothers began arriving one at a time at Milwaukee this past Tuesday to Thursday. On each occasion, six Navy sailors carried each flag-draped coffin from the plane to the hearse. They were then conveyed to the Cline and Hanson Funeral Home in New London, Wisconsin, where they will be cremated and their urns placed at a gravesite that's sat empty all these years.
Nearly 80 years later, the Barber brothers will finally be home.
They will be buried with full military honors on September 11, 2021, at Most Precious Blood Cemetery in New London.
I wrote about the three brothers back in June when their identification was released. There is a picture of the three Barber brothers to the right of this post.
The grief that poor family must have experienced losing not one but three sons at the same time is unimaginable,
--GreGen
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