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Brisbane ceremony honors veterans as family recounts WWII airman’s long repatriation
Summary
At a Brisbane City Veterans Day ceremony, officials and community members honored local veterans while a relative recounted how the Department of Defense’s accounting office identified and returned a World War II airman after decades missing in action.
Brisbane City held a Veterans Day ceremony that honored local service members and featured a family account of a World War II airman’s recovery and repatriation.
The moderator opened the event by thanking veterans and uniformed city staff, saying “Freedom is not free,” and introducing city leaders in attendance. The moderator described how the Department of Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) located remains believed to be of a U.S. airman whose aircraft was shot down in Germany in 1944 and said the…
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