On 79th anniversary of attack on Pearl Harbor, Minnesota family awaits for loved one’s remains to be returned home
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Monday marks the 79th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
More than 2,300 U.S. troops died after the Japanese attacked the military base in Hawaii on December 7, 1941.
On the grounds of the Minnesota State Capitol it serves as a monument to a day that lives in infamy. The naval gun that fired the first shot by Americans at Pearl Harbor.
U.S. Navy Seaman 2nd Class Lloyd Timm of Kellogg was killed aboard the USS Oklahoma during the attack. Timm was only 19 years old.
Pearl Harbor ceremony to honor those killed in 1941 attack
FILE - American ships burn during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in this Dec. 7, 1941 file photo. The coronavirus pandemic is preventing Pearl Harbor survivors from attending an annual ceremony to remember those killed in the 1941 attack. The National Park Service and Navy also are closing the ceremony to the public and livestreaming it instead.[AP Photo, File]
"We can never forget this," Timm’s nephew, Terry Timm, said.
Terry says his uncle’s remains were recently identified through DNA testing. The family had hoped to bury Timm at a cemetery in Kellogg last Memorial Day but couldn’t because of the pandemic.
"It was going to be a really big to do and fitting for it to be on Memorial Day. It truly would have been exciting."
Now the family hopes to bring him home next year.