From the December7, Tulsa (Oklahoma) World "Tim Stanley: 79 years after Pearl Harbor sinking, project to identify USS Oklahoma's dead nearing its end" by Tim Stanley.
The name Pearl Harbor didn't mean much to most Americans as day broke on December 7, 1941, but by the end of the day, they sure had heard of it.
But, to Oklahomans, one name did strike a bell right up front, and that was what had happened to the ship named after the state. The USS Oklahoma (BB-37). Just last year, the Oklahoma Military Hall of Fame recognized the importance of the vessel by making it the first ship to be inducted into it.
Tim Stanley says the USS Oklahoma started becoming more real for him about four years ago. That's when he started seeing occasional press releases about Sailors from that stricken ship being identified using DNA. Almost 400 had died on that ship and not been identified.
Since then, he has been on hand at Tulsa International Airport for some emotional scenes involving families of the fallen.
--Pearl Harbor
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