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WE LIKE TO STICK CLOSE TO
HOME AROUND THESE PARTLIES IT
SEEMS.
ALL RIGHT KATE.
THANK YOU.
THIS MEMORIAL DAY WILL HAVE
EXTRA SPECIAL MEANING FOR ONE
MINNESOTA COMMUNITY.
WILMER WELCOMED HOME MATE FIRST
CLASS JOHN ANDERSON 72 YEARS
AFTER HIS DEATH.
HE DIED DURING THE NORMANDY
INVASION BUT HIS FAMILY NEVER
RECEIVED HIS REMAINS.
RACHEL EXPLAINS HOW THIS SAILOR
FINALLY MADE HIS WAY HOME.
OVER THERE IS JOSH SMITH.
HE WAS KILLED IN IRAQ.
BARNELL JACOBS IS HERE.
THERE'S A TON OF HISTORY HERE.
HE WAS 19 YEARS OLD WHEN HE
DIED IN KOREA.
HE'S MADE IT A POINT TO
LEARN THE WAR STORIES OF
WILMER.
FEW HAVE HAD AN IMPACT QUITE
LIKE THE STORY OF JOHN
ANDERSON.
NEVER SET OUT WITH THE IDEA
THAT HE WAS GOING TO MEAN SO
MUCH TO GET THIS DONE.
THAT.
THIS WEEKEND THE NAVY
MACHINIST MATE WILL HAVE HIS
FINAL RESTING PLACE DECADES
AFTER HIS DEATH.
A HOMECOMING DUE LARGELY IN
PART TO LINDQUIST.
HE'S SOMEONE I NEVER GOT TO
MEET BUT SOMEBODY THAT I
ADMIRE.
THE SAILOR DIED DURING THE D
DAY INVASION BUT HIS FAMILY
NEVER RECEIVED HIS REMAINS.
ANDERSON WAS LIKELY BURIED IN
AN UNMARKED GRAVE IN NORMANDY.
THE PUSH FOR TESTING TO
IDENTIFY THE BODY REQUIRED HELP
FROM AMY CLOVASHAR.
WE WERE CONVINCED TO DO
THESE TESTS.
AND WE DID THE TESTS.
AND IT WAS TRUE.
IT IS JOHN ANDERSON.
ANDERSON GOT HIS HERO'S
WELCOME 72 YEARS AFTER HIS
SERVICE.
THERE'S OVER 1,000 PEOPLE ON
THE STREETS WELCOMING JOHN BACK
WILMER.
A SAILOR LOST AT SEA FINALLY
MADE HIS WAY HOME.
AFTER ALL THIS TIME TO KNOW
WHERE HE'S AT AND TO HAVE HIM
BACK HERE AT HOME IS JUST HUGE.
TODAY ANDERSON FINALLY
RECEIVED A PROPER BURIAL.
HUNDREDS ATTENDED HIS MEMORIAL
SERVICE AT THE WILMER WAR
MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM.
THAT WAS FOLLOWED BY THE
BURIAL AT FAIR VIEW CEMETERY