MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Tony Evers has directed that flags to be flown at half-staff in the state Tuesday to honor a Wisconsin soldier who died in World War II and whose remains were recently identified. Evers’ order directs that U.S. flags and Wisconsin state flags be lowered to half-staff from sunrise to sunset Tuesday, the day U.S. Army Private First Class William LaVerne “Sonny” Simon will be buried with full military honors in his hometown of Middleton. Simon was reported unaccounted in November 1944, during the Battle of the Hürtgen Forest in Germany. His previously unidentified remains were identified after being sent in 2019 to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency laboratory.
