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"Pearl Harbor Day was the appropriate day to bring him home,” said Taylor's nephew, Biggers.

"I just wish my mother could’ve heard that, because this was her brother.

"She talked about him a lot."https://t.co/ov2QX1Cmkz

— just dog content for now (@chadgarland) December 9, 2023

Semper Fi, Marine.

 Private First Class Charles Robert Taylor returned to his home state of Oklahoma Tuesday, 82 years after his death.

The Marine was killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor back in 1941. He and several others were trapped on the capsized U.S.S Oklahoma.

“When they finally righted it, they had a lot of bodies they couldn’t identify anymore,” said his nephew, William Biggers.

Pfc. Taylor and several unidentified crewmen spent years buried in Oahu, Hawaii. On December 5th, just two days before the attack’s anniversary, his family and fellow marines welcomed him home.

”Really, he’s a son of Oklahoma,” Biggers explained. “It just felt like it was my duty to do that. I owed my grandfather and I owed his siblings to do that. Of course none of his sibling are alive anymore. We’re all just nephews and nieces.”

The timing wasn’t by chance. Biggers said this week was the perfect time to honor his uncle.

”Pearl Harbor day was the appropriate day to bring him home,” he explained. “We lost him on Pearl Habor. Let’s bring him home on the anniversary of his death.”

The Chad Garland who posted this last year is a friend of mine, a Marine and former Stars and Stripes reporter. He knew someone at Bagram as the Afghanistan withdrawal was going down who, in the midst of all the chaos, checked if our nephew's memorial had been packed up. The thought of it being left for the Taliban to desecrate was almost unbearable.

God bless 1st Cav. They already had it crated and brought it with them out of the country.

Chad feels these moments in his soul, as we all do. 

And we all will always remember and honor the sacrifices of so many.

#SemperFi