Most of Paul Goodyear's 429 shipmates who died in the Dec. 7, 1941, attack by Japan are buried in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl.

Goodyear, who lives in Casa Grande, Ariz., said at least 640 unidentified men — on the USS Oklahoma and other ships — who died during the Pearl Harbor attack are buried at Punchbowl.

Goodyear noted some of the bodies were identified and returned home after the attack. He said some of those buried in Hawai'i now could also be identified and returned. In June, the remains of one USS Oklahoma sailor, Alfred Livingston of Worthington, Ind., were returned to the sailor's hometown.

"The outpouring of love, admiration and respect that this little community in southwestern Indiana gave to that kid was heart-rending when they took his body into that little town," said Goodyear, who attended Livingston's services.

Goodyear said Livingston had been buried in an unknown grave in the Punchbowl and was identified from information that was available in 1941.

Goodyear isn't the only Pearl Harbor survivor campaigning for the return of remains to the Mainland. Goodyear said Ray Emory, another survivor, told him there are 27 USS Oklahoma men who could, like Livingston, be identified from information available in 1941.

One of those 27 is Paul Andrew Nash, the grandfather of Lisa Ridge, an Indiana schoolteacher who spoke Friday at the dedication of the new USS Oklahoma memorial at Ford Island in Pearl Harbor.

Ridge said she wants to help Goodyear in his quest to return the remains of USS Oklahoma crew members and that she has already spoken with members of Indiana's congressional delegation about it.

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