Newly identified bodies of Pearl Harbor victims returned to families for burial
Navy Fireman 3rd Class Edwin Hopkins died during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. He was buried as an unknown serviceman in Hawaii until his body was recently identified in a DNA test.
Barbara Demick
Edwin Chester Hopkins’ casket was draped with an American flag that had hung above the state Capitol. Boy Scouts saluted as the motorcade weaved around the colonial town square to the cemetery, where a military bugler readied to play taps in the dappled sunlight of a cool autumn day.
It was a grand funeral, one of the most memorable this New England town had witnessed, for a young man who had perished just past his 19th birthday. All that was lacking were the copious tears one would expect for someone whose death was so tragic and premature.
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