Army scientists used DNA and dental records to identify the 22-year-old soldier as Sgt. Bernard J. Sweeney Jr.
RIVERHEAD, N.Y. -- An unknown soldier is unknown no more.Tuesday, he received a hero's welcome 79 years after his death in World War II.Active duty honors for an American who lost his life fighting for freedom eight decades ago. The young man enlisted in World War II in New York City and went missing on Dec. 16, 1944, on the Eve of the Battle of Bulge, fighting the Nazis.For decades, his remains laid in a Belgian grave for unknown soldiers. The military never gave up on identifying them.
This is a 22-year-old man we are burying here today,' said Eileen Shanahan, with the Warrior Ranch Foundation.A two-mile funeral procession, with a riderless horse for a fallen hero, drew flags and tears and hundreds paying respects all these years later.'My father was a World War II veteran, too, so it means a lot to honor our American soldiers,' Calverton resident Jeriann Bodensky said.A younger generation turned out to pay homage to the greatest generation.
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