Veterans, first responders, and just those who wanted to be there stood as one on the two-mile route to Calverton National Cemetery.
Sgt. Sweeney was reported missing in Germany’s Hurtgen Forest during the Second World War in December 1944.
Sgt. Sweeney’s disappearance was recorded on the eve of the Battle of the Bulge. He was just 22 years old. According to the US Army Center of Military History website, 33,000 Americans were killed or wounded in the German forest. But a historian, from the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency believed the remains recovered from a minefield could be Sweeney’s.
"It is a profound privilege to be able to provide Sgt Sweeney a final resting place where his service and sacrifice can be honored in perpetuity the way every veteran’s should," Executive Director Anne Ellis of the Calverton National Cemetery said.
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