Vallejo Juneteenth Committee Awards Scholarships to Solano County Students
For the second year in a row, the organization could not hold Vallejo’s Annual Juneteenth Celebration due to COVID-19. AAFRC President Gwendolyn White says launching the scholarship program also celebrates other first time milestones for Vallejo in this historic year for Juneteenth which became a federal holiday on June 19.
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ByPost Staff The African American Family Reunion Committee, which sponsors Vallejo s Annual Juneteenth Celebration, raised the official Juneteenth Flag at an inaugural ceremony on June 1 at Martin Luther King, Jr. Park where the banner was displayed during the entire month of June. (l-r) Juneteenth members attending the program included Derek Crutchfield, Sandra Stowes, Angela Jones (at podium), Margaret Plump, Rosemary Thurston, Dr. Genea Brice, and A. Marie Young. Photo courtesy: MEL Media
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Agency identifies remains of Wichita sailor killed in Pearl Harbor attack
The U.S. Defense Department and its Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency have identified the remains of a Wichita sailor killed during World War II.
Navy Ship’s Cook 3rd Class Robert Goodwin, 20, was accounted for in November, 2020. He was assigned to the battleship USS Oklahoma at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor. The Oklahoma was attacked by Japanese aircraft on December 7, 1941 and suffered a number of torpedo hits, causing it to capsize. The attack killed 429 crewmen on the ship.
The remains of the deceased crew members were recovered and interred at two cemeteries in Hawaii, and they were later removed and taken to the Central Identification Laboratory at Schofield Barracks in 1947. Remains that were unidentified were placed at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu. In 2015, the remains were exhumed for analysis, and scientists were able to use DNA a
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