Few Pearl Harbor Survivors Around For 74th Anniversary Of Attack

Although they’re disappearing by the day, veterans of world war two were honored for the 74th anniversary of pearl harbor.

The Hoga joins the USS Razorback submarine which was present in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945, the day of the official Japanese surrender.

“I think they have some wonderful experiences to look forward to and I hope as they progress through the system, that they get as much joy as I have”, said Evans. “But that was a better life than what I had working on a farm”.

Numerous day’s events from Pearl Harbor will be live-streamed at pearlharborevents.com, Participants will be able to ask questions about the attack from National Park Service experts. It was a good thing, too-the Japanese sunk the Jarvis on August 9, 1942 during the Battle of Guadalcanal.

Levingston was among the veterans who laid a wreath at the World War II memorial on Monday. Patriots Point held a memorial service Monday with the Mt. Pleasant Veterans of Foreign Wars on the USS Yorktown.

“It’s just an honor for me to remember my father like this and all the veterans that defend our nation”, Dorris said.

The post has been holding this ceremony on the anniversary of the tragedy for many years, to bring the community together in remembering those who allowed us to have the freedom we have now.

“Somebody says, my God the Japanese has bombed Pearl Harbor”, said Gunter.

“‘With confidence in our armed forces, with unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph, ‘” Farnham said, reading the former president’s historic words.

US Navy officials said about two dozen veterans who were on the island of Oahu the morning of the attack were well enough to attend commemoration ceremonies on Monday.

The remains of numerous 1,177 USA military personnel who died aboard the Arizona are still inside the submerged wreck. We don’t know what they would’ve become. Well I don’t know how long that is.