From the February 5, 2016, N.J..com "After 74 years, N.J. veteran wants brother's remains back from Pearl Harbor" by Andy Polhamus.
Gene Costill, former mayor of Clayton and World War II veteran has a photo frame full of pictures of his brother, Harold "Brud" Costill, who died at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. He is one of 25 unidentified bodies recovered from the USS West Virginia.
Gene Costill will soon be having his 90th birthday. He joined the Coast Guard at age 17 and served in the North Atlantic guarding convoys.
Mr. Costill still remembers the day the Western Union man came to the family's house on Pearl Street saying that Harold was on the USS West Virginia and was MIA at age 18, just a few months after joining the Navy. He has been listed as missing ever since.
"I don't think my mother ever lived another day after that, really. She was convinced he was off the ship, lost somewhere, and that one day he'd walk through that door. She waited for the rest of her life."
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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