Flags Ordered at Half Staff in Wisconsin

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has ordered flags to fly at half-staff on Wednesday in honor of a Hudson man who lost his life during the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. 

Chief Petty Officer Duff Gordon’s remains were recently identified. 

Gordon was 52 years old and assigned to the USS Oklahoma when he died. 

He is scheduled to be buried in his hometown of Hudson, Wisconsin on Wednesday. 

Japanese planes hit Gordon’s battleship with multiple torpedoes and caused it to quickly capsize.  The Oklahoma lost 429 men in th attack. 

The military was unable to identify most of the Oklahoma dead, and buried hundreds as “unknowns.”

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency dug up their remains from a veterans’ cemetery in Honolulu last year, saying advances in forensic science and technology have identification more feasible.