Daniel Harris will be buried Dec. 7 at Fort Rosecrans cemetery, 81 years after his death, thanks to USS Oklahoma Project, which identifies sailor's remains
On Dec. 7, a sailor killed at Pearl Harbor will be buried at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery. It will be an especially poignant day for three sisters and their family members who live in La Jolla.
These graves and others bearing service members from additional U.S. Navy ships that met their demise at Pearl Harbor are being re-examined systematically by scientists of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency in the hope of bringing closure to loved ones — at last. The families of those identified were given the choice of burial at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Hawaii, where they previously had been interred, or a military-paid funeral at a cemetery of their choice.
Harris’ granddaughters, Shannon McKee, Jeanne McKee and Dianne McKee Roberts, were notified in August 2019 that a positive match had been made of their grandfather. Years later, she began a tradition of taking her nieces and nephews to visit Pearl Harbor and to see the USS Oklahoma plaque bearing Daniel Harris’ name when they graduated from college.
Before passengers deboarded, the pilot greeted them, and the casket was ceremoniously met by a Navy honor guard. Harris’ remains then were escorted to the cemetery by motorcade flanked by Patriot Guard Riders. Family members will continue to honor Harris through visits to the cemetery, adds Shannon. “We want to keep his memory alive.”
For those who could not be identified, they often lacked a relative’s DNA sample. For instance, the one San Diego sailor who was reinterred in Hawaii, Musician 1st Class Rowland Hampton Smith, was adopted, and Navy genealogical researchers couldn’t identify a biological relative.
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