'Wwe've been waiting to see if it would happen,' said survivor Art Leenerman, 93, of Mahomet, while for Peggy Campo, daughter of survivor Don McCall of Champaign, who died in June, 'it's been a long time coming.' Reacting to news that his old ship had been found at the bottom of the Philippine Sea, one of the 19 living survivors of the worst naval at-sea disaster in U.S.

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