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How A High Schooler Helped Reunite Twins 74 Years After Their World War II Deaths

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U.S. Navy personnel carry the casket of World War II sailor Julius "Henry" Pieper during a reburial service at the Normandy American Cemetery, Colleville-sur-Mer, France, on June 19. Seventy-four years to the day after their ship hit a mine off the coast of Normandy and sank, the soldier's remains were finally reunited with, and laid to rest beside, his twin brother Ludwig "Louie" Pieper. (AP)
U.S. Navy personnel carry the casket of World War II sailor Julius "Henry" Pieper during a reburial service at the Normandy American Cemetery, Colleville-sur-Mer, France, on June 19. Seventy-four years to the day after their ship hit a mine off the coast of Normandy and sank, the soldier's remains were finally reunited with, and laid to rest beside, his twin brother Ludwig "Louie" Pieper. (AP)

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