Sailor put to rest 60 years later

WISH TV 8 (Indianapolis) ^ | 6/30/10 | n/a

[DemforBush]

COLUMBUS, Ind. (WISH) - It's been six decades but a sailor from Columbus killed in the Korean War will finally rest in peace.

Robert Langwell was the second cousin Brenda Showalter never knew; missing for 60 years. Then last year her phone rang.

"I was just sure it was a scam," remembers Showalter. "Someone was wanting money. This can't be..."

But it was true. The remains of Navy Ensign Robert Langwell had been found in South Korea.

[DemforBush]

[SandRat]

Attention on Deck! Ensign Robert Langwell arriving.

[ConorMacNessa]

Welcome Home and Rest in Peace!

Lamh Foistenach Abu!

[BIGLOOK]

Welcome home and Godspeed.

[Harold Shea]

UNDER the wide and starry sky
Dig the grave and let me lie:
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.

This be the verse you ‘grave for me: 5
Here he lies where he long’d to be;
Home is the sailor, home from the sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.

[OldPossum]

I don’t think that Navy officers are referred to as “sailors.”

[Radix]

Are Army Officers “soldiers?”

[OldPossum]

I think that I have read as such, but I have never seen a reference to Navy officers as sailors. I know a couple Navy officers and they’re never thought of themselves as sailors, based upon their conversations with me.

So, it’s a bit of a puzzle.

[tarawa]

Sailors never really thought of the officers as sailors either....