{"id":62721,"date":"2015-11-10T11:52:55","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T16:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62721"},"modified":"2015-11-10T11:52:55","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T16:52:55","slug":"remains-from-uss-oklahoma-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62721","title":{"rendered":"Remains from USS OKLAHOMA identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of the more than 2400 US service members who were killed at Pearl Harbor, 429 were from the USS OKLAHOMA. Only 35 sets of those remains were identified in the early years since the ship sank on December 7th, 1941. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/pacific\/military-identifies-remains-of-7-pearl-harbor-unknowns-1.378057\">Associated Press<\/a> reports that the Defense POW\/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) has focused on those folks and they hope to identify 80% of them in the next five years. In the meantime, they&#8217;ve identified seven;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> On Monday, officials exhumed the last four of 61 caskets containing unknown people from the Oklahoma. Many of the caskets include the remains of multiple individuals.<\/p>\n<p>Families will have the option of receiving remains as they are identified, or waiting until the agency has more pieces of a body or even a complete skeleton. Navy casualty officers will let families know their options.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The names of those seven will be released after the families have been identified.<\/p>\n<p>The losses from the Oklahoma were second only to the loss of 1100 folks on the USS ARIZONA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of the more than 2400 US service members who were killed at Pearl Harbor, 429 were &hellip; <a title=\"Remains from USS OKLAHOMA identified\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62721\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Remains from USS OKLAHOMA identified<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-we-remember"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}