12/07/2023
Today is the day that lives as the "Day of Infamy" December 7, 1941 at Pearl Harbor. My Story for today starts on that day, I had a man stop in the restaurant, Hunt's Battlefield Fries and Cafe' and he ate, but he also brought one one my many Mitiary hats that I have for sale. He tells me the store of why he is buying the hat, His Grandfather was a U.S Navy sailor and his Grandfather was killed on board the USS Oklahoma BB- 37 and he wanted to buy the hat and wear it, in Honor of his Grandfather. So this pass summer of 2023 that man stops back in the restaurant to eat and he share's his store with me what happen to him after he bought that USS Oklahoma's hat. He tells me that the U.S.Navy calls him up and they need a DNA sample from him, His Grandfather was buried in a mass grave in Hawaii and they the Navy are going to dig up the remains of all the boys that are buried their so they can try to Identify them. So he provides a DNA sample. A few months later he gets a call from someone at the Navy and says they have Identified his Grandfather. They did the identification some where in the midwest. The Navy just needs to know where he wants his Grandfather reburied at. He tells them to reburied his Grandfather at the National Cemetery, "The Punch Bowl" in Hawaii but he ask them to call him went they are flying his Grandfather back to Hawaii as he wants to acompany his Grandfather on the flight. So he wears the the USS Oklahoma BB-37 hat he bought from me, all the way back to Hawaii and he also wears the hat at the service to rebury his Grandfather who died on December 7, 1941 on board the USS OKLAHOMA BB-37. His granfathers name was Oliver Kenneth Burger, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/77280219/oliver-kenneth-burger and he was incharge of all the Boiler's on the USS Oklahoma. Thanks to all the men and women that fought and died on Dec 7, 1941 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/238446422/oliver-kenneth-burger