Over the past six years, an obscure unit inside the Pentagon has identified 361 men killed aboard the Oklahoma
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From left: Harold Trapp, mother Lillie Trapp, father William E. Trapp, William Trapp, and family friend Lambert Zeephat in August 1939occurred nine years before Carol Sowar was born, but in many ways, it shaped the course of her life. An entire side of the family was simply wiped out: no aunts, uncles nor cousins. There was a lasting sadness. Her mother, Irene Louise Trapp, grieved her older brothers’ deaths until she, herself, died in 2007.
The findings showed the promise of DNA and advances in dental, anthropological and genetic evidence in identifying the lost sailors, giving hope to hundreds of families living in limbo. But the Navy was against DNA testing on the, not wanting to raise the expectations of gold-star families only to let them down. Over time, the innovations and reliability in DNA technology could not be ignored.
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