Sgt. Donald D. Stoddard’s parents bought a grave for their son after his body went missing during World War II. Seventy-seven years later, an audience of hundreds, none of who ever knew him, witnessed his burial. “His parents had so much faith in our country that they actually reserved a plot and headstone for him all those years ago, knowing that knew he would be brought home to be buried here next to them,” said retired U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Gen. William F. Mullen III, a keynote speaker at Stoddard’s funeral...




Source: Returning to U.S. soil: Deceased World War II veteran comes home