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Naming the unknown

SEVEN SAILORS POINT THEIR RIFLES SKYWARD and fire in unison, breaking the silence at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu. For one family, the salute signifies the end of a mystery that traces back to the beginning of U.S. involvement in World War II.

Navy sailors Harold and William Trapp were presumed killed when their battleship, U.S.S. was hit by Japanese torpedoes in Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. Their family waited for weeks, months, then years as the mixed together.

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