'We got him home': Edmonson County holds funeral for WWII POW 81 years after death

Even as a young boy, U.S. Army CW5 Gerald Carroll knew something was different about the grave of his great-uncle, U.S. Army Pfc. Thomas Franklin “Frank” Brooks.

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