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CHICAGO AP 鈥?A 21-year-old sailor will be laid to rest on Tuesday following a decades-long effort to identify remains pulled from Pearl Harbor, more than 80 years after he was killed in the attack that propelled the United States into World War II.READ MORE: More time needed to remove jet fuel from Pearl Harbor drinking water, says NavyMembers of Herbert Bert Jacobson fa
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