Sailors from sunken navy ship recognized as 'buried at sea' after 77 years

For most of his life, Edward Salinas never knew he had a great uncle who served in World War II. The 26-year-old grew up in Edinburg, Texas, just north of the border with Mexico, thousands of miles away from where his relative was a crew member on one of the Navy's most famous sunken ships.

Salinas took a DNA test so he could start building a family tree for his young children. Soon after, he found out about his great uncle, Seamen 3rd Class Jose Antonio Saenz.
"I had been digging around and trying to put pieces of the puzzle together for my family," Salinas told CNN from his home. "I never know about this. It's almost like he was forgotten."
In a sense, Saenz was forgotten, listed as "unaccounted for" from the USS Indianapolis, one of the most infamous stories in US Navy history.