A former Long Islander is part of a team of advocates who say they have helped collect enough DNA to exhume the remains of unidentified American servicemen killed aboard the battleship Arizona, sunk at Pearl Harbor, so they can be identified and reburied with military honors.

John Hardy, an insurance executive formerly from Port Washington who now lives in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, serves as chief research analyst for advocacy group Operation 85 . Since 2023, the group’s volunteers say they have contacted and helped obtain DNA samples from 1,400 potential relatives of the 85 or more unidentified crew members of the USS Arizona. The remains, some of which the group says are commingled, were buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii, after they were f

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