A twenty-one year-old sailor was laid to rest Tuesday after a decades-long effort to identify his remains at Pearl Harbor.
Members of Herbert "Bert" Jacobson's family waited all their lives to attend a memorial for a young man they never knew or met. Jacobson was among the 400 USS Oklahoma Unknowns.
The casket holding his remains was carried Tuesday morning on a horse-drawn caisson led by a military escort before his burial at Arlington National Cemetery.
Herbert Jacobson was from the small town of Grayslake in northern Illinois. His family knew he had died, but there was no body to bury. The USS Oklahoma lay submerged for two years before it was uprighted and the bodies recovered. By then there wasn't much to go on for identification.
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