Editing Eddie Slovik (section)

==Burial==
Slovik was buried in [[List of Burials at Oise-Aisne American Cemetery Plot E|Plot E]] of [[Oise-Aisne American Cemetery and Memorial]] in Fère-en-Tardenois, alongside 95 American soldiers executed for rape or murder. Their grave markers are hidden from view by shrubbery and bear sequential numbers instead of names, making it impossible to identify them individually without knowing the key. Antoinette Slovik petitioned the Army for her husband's remains and his pension until her death in 1979.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Fraser |first=C. Gerald |date=September 8, 1979 |title=Antoinette Slovik, Widow of a G.I. Shot by Army for Desertion in 1945 |edition=New York |page=36 |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/09/08/archives/antoinette-slovik-widow-of-a-gi-shot-by-army-for-desertion-in-1945.html |access-date=March 12, 2019 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

Slovik's case was taken in 1981 by former [[Macomb County, Michigan|Macomb County]] Commissioner Bernard V. Calka, a Polish-American and veteran of World War II, who continued to petition the Army to return Slovik's remains to the United States. In 1987, he persuaded President [[Ronald Reagan]] to order their return.<ref name="body">{{Cite news |date=July 12, 1987 |title=Body of executed soldier interred next to his wife |agency=Associated Press |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GkgVAAAAIBAJ&pg=5161,2687679&dq=calka+slovik+president |access-date=April 21, 2011 }}{{Dead link|date=June 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> In 1987, Calka raised $5,000 to pay for the exhumation of Slovik's remains from Row 3, Grave 65 of Plot E, and their transfer to Detroit's [[Woodmere Cemetery]], where Slovik was reburied next to his wife.<ref name="body" /> Slovik's military service record is archived and publicly available from the [[Military Personnel Records Center]].

Antoinette Slovik and others petitioned seven U.S. presidents ([[Harry S. Truman]], [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]], [[John F. Kennedy]], [[Lyndon B. Johnson]], [[Richard Nixon]], [[Gerald Ford]], and [[Jimmy Carter]]) for a pardon, but none was granted.