Corporal James Otto died in the Pacific war but his remains were only recently discovered. He was finally laid to rest 72 years later in a solemn ceremonyThe family sat sombrely beside the casket watching six white-gloved pallbearers fold the Stars and Stripes in a silent,ritualistic mime. A chaplain spoke a prayer, a bugler sounded Taps and a firing party shot three times into the soft morning light.What seemed to matter least in the ceremony at America’s Arlington National Cemetery on Tuesday was that the man being laid to rest perished 72 years ago.
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Source: theguardian.com