Flags in Wisconsin will fly at half-staff on Saturday for a Navy seaman who was killed during the attack on Pearl Harbor, Gov. Tony Evers announced.
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MADISON, Wis. -- Flags in Wisconsin will fly at half-staff on Saturday for a Navy seaman who was killed during the attack on Pearl Harbor, Gov. Tony Evers announced.
David Joseph Riley of Juda was one of over 50 Wisconsinites who were killed on that infamous December day in 1941. Riley was serving as a Navy Seaman Second Class on the USS Oklahoma.
The remains of the crew of the USS Oklahoma were first interred in the Halawa and Nu’uanu Cemeteries, and reinterred at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in 1947 after attempts at identification.
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency began exhuming remains from the USS Oklahoma in 2015, and Riley was positively identified in 2021. He was posthumously awarded a Purple Heart, the American Campaign Medal, and the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal.
Riley is scheduled to be buried with full military honors in Juda on Saturday.
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