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Town Turns Out to Lay World War II Veteran to Rest in Kentucky
 
16 May 2021
Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, Ky. | By James Mayse

LEWISPORT — The streets leading into the town of Lewisport were lined with American flags Saturday as Navy Fireman 2nd Class Martin D. Young was laid to rest, after almost 80 years away from home.

Young, a sailor with the battleship USS Oklahoma, was killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. Except for the few surviving members of "The Greatest Generation," the story of Pearl Harbor and World War II is known mostly through history books or films now. But the town of Lewisport remembers, and people came out in number Saturday to see Young taken to his resting place in the town's cemetery.

Stacie Cecil was one of the many people lining West Fourth Street to watch the hearse, with the U.S. Navy emblem on the side, go by. The hearse was proceeded by the motorcycles of Rolling Thunder and the Patriot Guard Riders, who provided Young's escort from Gibson and Son Funeral Home to the cemetery.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/05/16/town-turns-out-lay-world-war-ii-veteran-rest-kentucky.html

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