SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) – A World War II soldier was laid to rest at Sarasota National Cemetery on Monday, 82 years after his plane was shot down over Germany.
Technical Sergeant Charles C. Palmer Jr., a U.S. Army gunner, was honored at a ceremony attended by family members, including one of his last living relatives who remembers him.
Bonnie Rolequin, 98, is one of Palmer’s last living cousins who knew him. She said she assumed for decades that he was represented by a stone in Luxembourg and that the family would never know where he was…