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Pearl Harbor hero to be reburied in Arlington

ARLINGTON, Va. — Seventy-six years after his valiant service during the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, Seaman 1st Class James Richard Ward of Ohio will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

The ceremony was scheduled for Dec. 21and will remember Ward, who was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. According to a story at , the 20-year-old Ward originally was interred as an story. A rosette now adorns his name in the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, signifying that he has been accounted for.

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