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Coming home to rest

Coming home to rest

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Coming home to rest

Hanging on the north wall in the Harvard Community Room, along with various other veterans’ names and photos, is this photo of Jones accompanied by a letter from President Franklin Roosevelt. COURTESY PHOTO | CLAY COUNTY NEWS

Coming home to rest

A stone, as seen here, stands in the Harvard Cemetery as a memorial for Charles A. Jones. COURTESY PHOTO | CLAY COUNTY NEWS

On Dec.7, 1941, the attack began. Japanese aircraft dropped bombs on Pearl Harbor, sinking or destroying six U.S. ships, 169 U.S. Navy and Army Air Corps planes, killing 2,403 and wounding 1,178. Among those was Harvard resident Charles Alan Jones, who was assigned to the battleship USS Oklahoma, which was moored at ...

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