For Pearl Harbor hero Gerald Lehman, it was a long journey home
After 68 years, the U.P. welcomes back one of its own

Lehman, who was killed in action aboard the USS Oklahoma during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1941, was one of 429 sailors and Marines on the Oklahoma who perished early that Sunday morning.

For decades, his family believed that Lehman's remains were unknown and unrecoverable, placed in a grave with those associated with four other sailors. But with advances in modern technology, most of the sailors have been positively identified and returned to their families. Lehman could not be returned, because he and another sailor had the same mitochondrial DNA. But Lehman was eventually identified by his own nuclear DNA found on envelopes he'd sent home to his parents.

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This was on the front page of my local newspaper and i thought it was very touching that his neice helped make her mother's dying wish come true....to find the remains of her brother and bring him home. I cried the whole time i read this article. I have much respect for our soldiers and their families. God bless the USA!!

thank you for sharing that, Sherry..

Great story!

Thanks, Sherry ... nice that this has the ending it does ...

I thought it was an amazing story, it touched my heart and i wanted to share it.