Over 300 people attended the Arlington Cemetery funeral of Herman Schmidt, a 28-year-old killed at Pearl Harbor whose remains were identified in 2021.
Still, they stood several rows deep under a leafless tree on a summery winter day to express their deep gratitude to the man they’d never met and whose name they’d just learned.
Schmidt’s remains were positively identified in 2021 following the submission of a DNA sample by his son, Michael Schmidt, who was just 13 months old when his father was killed.“I’m glad it’s being done,” said Michael Schmidt, reached by phone at his Southern California home the night before the funeral. “I’ve lived with this all my life, so I’m glad it’s being taken care of.”
It wasn’t until after he had retired from his career as a data processing consultant that he began to pore over World War II history including the attack on Pearl Harbor and the grim campaigns in the Pacific and Europe in a war that would last until 1945 and claim the lives of tens of millions around the world.
“It went gangbusters,” Price said with a smile after the service, looking at the long, long line of cars that snaked past the burial site. The word spread to service academy alumni groups, Pentagon offices, military bases, the Daughters of the American Revolution and then on social media, where more people who had never heard of Schmidt decided they needed to make their way to Arlington.
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