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04/16/2010: DNA from Letters help ID Pearl Harbor Casualty


Before his death at Pearl Harbor, a young sailor named Gerald Lehman sent letters home to Michigan that his mother came to treasure.  Lehman was buried as an "unknown" at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl.  Unknowingly, his letters contained something that would not be useful until decades later - his own DNA.   Click here to read more about it at honoluluadvertiser.com.

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