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Dale Robert Geddes, a soldier who fought and died seventy-two years ago in the Battle of Tarawa during World War Two, body was recently discovered and identified by means of DNA. He has been shipped back to his hometown in Grand Island, Nebraska where he will receive a full military honors burial, deserving of a hero. Geddes was born, February 21st, 1922 and graduated from Grand Island Senior High in 1940. After graduation he went to work for the Grand Island Independent, but left his job to work for the Cheyenne, Wyoming, newspaper in August 1942. On November 20th, 1942, in Denver Geddes enlisted in the Marine Corps Reserves, and on November 20th, 1943 Geddes participated in the devastating Battle of Tarawa. Just like over a thousand more

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