Emergency alert mistakenly sent
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to Guam residents HAGATNA, Guam (AP) — An emergency alert was mistakenly broadcast to Guam residents amid fears of missile strikes against the Pacific island by North Korea. The alert
Emergency alert mistakenly sent
to Guam residents
HAGATNA, Guam (AP) — An emergency alert was mistakenly broadcast to Guam residents amid fears of missile strikes against the Pacific island by North Korea.
The alert went out on a radio station just after midnight Tuesday in Guam and said a “civil danger warning” was issued for the island. The Guam Homeland Security office blamed it on human error and said the mistake will not occur again.
Guam authorities say they remain in close contact with the U.S. military and have not elevated the threat level on the island.
Remains of Marine killed in WWII going home
OCEANO, Calif. (AP) — The remains of a U.S. Marine will be returned home to California’s Central Coast nearly 74 years after he was killed in a bloody World War II battle in the Pacific.
The remains of Pfc. George B. Murray will be flown from Hawaii to Los Angeles today and buried Friday with honors in Arroyo Grande near his hometown of Oceano, where a “Welcome Home” sign already stands outside an old railroad depot that is now a community center and local history museum.
“You were never forgotten,” it says.
Murray, whose casket will be escorted by motorcyclists of the Patriot Guard Riders on the long drive north from Los Angeles, will be buried in the same gravesite as his mother, Edith.
Murray was 20 when he was killed Nov. 20, 1943, as Marines landed against strong Japanese resistance on the tiny, coral reef-ringed island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll of the Gilbert Islands.
About 1,000 Marines and sailors died and more than 2,000 were wounded in several days of furious fighting that ultimately resulted in victory.
The U.S. dead were immediately buried in battlefield cemeteries on Betio.
Murray’s remains were not located in a recovery operation conducted between 1946 and 1947.
All remains found on Tarawa at that time were sent to a laboratory in Hawaii for identification. In 1949, those that could not be identified were interred at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, the defense agency said.
A recovery team went back to Betio, now part of the Republic of Kiribati, in 2010. Local police turned over possible human remains, which were sent to the identification lab.
Murray’s remains were identified via a DNA match with a nephew, George Winslett, as well as analysis of dental anthropological and chest X-ray comparisons.
