A Utah sailor who was lost in the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 was laid to rest in his hometown of Monroe Friday.
Dove and her team at the Smithsonian Institution’s Feather Identification Lab see about 9,000 of those birds annually — or what’s left of them. Sometimes, she says, the lab receives just a feather or two. Other times, they get “snarge” — a loose term for downy fragments and smashed bones and guts.