Michael Galajdik comes home

| April 24, 2017

Tom L. sends us a link to the news that F1c Michael Galajdik has come home to Joliet, Illinois. Hondo wrote that his remains had been identified back in February. According to the Chicago Tribune he was laid to his final rest on Saturday;

Galajdik, a Navy Fireman 1st Class, will be interred Saturday at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood. He was 25 when he was killed while aboard the USS Oklahoma during the Dec. 7, 1941, attack by the Japanese military that thrust the United States into World War II.

Crest Hill resident George Sternisha is escorting his uncle’s body from Hawaii and is expected to arrive Friday in preparation for the Saturday funeral services in Joliet.

It is a ceremony that has been years in the making.

“This was my mother’s wish,” Sternisha said Thursday from Hawaii. “I’m glad that I’m able to fulfill it.”

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AW1 Tim

Welcome home, shipmate. May you memory be a blessing.

2/17 Air Cav

I am glad for him and his family that he is home. As for his nephew, he looks like he could pass any PT test thrown at him, if you don’t mind my saying.

Sparks

Welcome home brother. God be with your family.

UpNorth

Welcome home, brother. Rest In Peace.

Ex-PH2

Fair winds and following seas, Fireman Galajdik.

CB Senior

That is a sweet ass Fleet Roll he is sporting there.

Welcome Shipmate

OldSoldier54

Welcome home, Brother. I’ll see you in a while.

TankBoy

Fair winds, Older Brother.

ex-OS2

Welcome home, Brother.

Stephen McCartney

May God’s blessings fill your soul as you return to the country who never forgot your courage.
Welcome home, Shipmate