80 years after he died at Pearl Harbor, Navy fireman s remains come home to Minnesota
The identity of Neal Kenneth Todd, who died while serving on the USS Oklahoma, was finally confirmed this year through DNA evidence. Author: Danny Spewak Updated: 10:23 PM CDT July 8, 2021
MINNEAPOLIS Southwest Airlines Flight 1934 landed at 3:19 p.m. Thursday in Minneapolis, carrying passengers from Omaha after a layover in Denver.
It seemed like a routine flight.
But as the plane inched toward Gate H11 at MSP Terminal 2, onlookers in the window seats must have noticed something unusual. A sea of people, consisting of uniformed military members, firefighters, and more than 50 relatives, had gathered anxiously on the tarmac, many waving their cell phones in the air to record a moment they have craved for decades.