Interment Ceremony for WWII POW From Troy

Interment ceremony for WWII POW from Troy

The interment ceremony for a World War II POW from Troy is taking place at 2 p.m. at the Gerald B. H. Solomon Saratoga National Cemetery in Schuylerville. You can watch the ceremony in the player above.

WWII POW laid to rest nearly 84 years after death in Pacific

Pvt. Ira Warren, of Seth, West Virginia was laid to rest on Wednesday nearly 84 years after dying in Japanese captivity following his capture in Philippines. Warren received full military honors at the Fauber Cemetery near Bloomingrose in front of family and community.

World War II veteran finally home from the war

SETH, W.Va. — Eighty-five years after Ira Warren of Boone County left the hills of West Virginia for war, he has finally returned. A burial ceremony with full military honors was held Wednesday morning at a small cemetery on Tony’s Branch in Boone County for Warren who died in a Japanese POW camp in the Philippines in 1943. “He was on the island when he marched in the Bataan Death March. He survived the death march, but he got malaria and died w…