Alabama NewsCenter — Museum preserves the service, stories of Alabama’s veterans

Alabama News Center | November 9, 2021 @ 10:00 am

By Jim Plott
Alabama Living

Two years ago, after a more than 80-year absence, Edgar David Gross finally came back home to Alabama.

The U.S. Navy seaman was among the 2,400 casualties at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Dec. 7, 1941, when Japanese warplanes attacked the naval base and surrounding military installations.

In 2018, after DNA testing, the seaman’s remains were reinterred to a cemetery in the rural Limestone County community where he grew up.

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