Rob Martin, left, assists Sanford VFW past commander Joe Garand to the edge of Number One Pond in Sanford to lay a wreath Monday marking Pearl Harbor Day.
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt told Congress the next day that a state of war existed between the US and Japan. He was a young man in his 20s and he was in the U.S. Army.
Another survivor, who identified himself as Woody, shared his experience with a local media outlet.
“Every two or three days I think of something that happened to me or something to my buddies”, Sanders said. “It was a bad day”.
He says because we’ve remain vigilant, “today’s armed forces are ready to answer the alarm bell”.
As of two years ago some 2,000 to 2,500 Pearl Harbor survivors were believed to be still alive, according to Eileen Martinez, chief of interpretation for the USS Arizona Memorial.
On that day more than 70 years ago, America lost 200 soldiers and sailors, with another 1,000 wounded. “We should always remember those who gave their lives and who continue to serve this country very proudly today”.
Pearl Harbor survivors Armando Galella, left, from Sleepy Hollow, NY, Clark Simmons, center, of Brooklyn NY, and Aaron Chabin, of Bayside, Queens, NY, attend a remembrance ceremony atthe Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, in…
Among those at the American Legion Post 213, Walter Schoenke, another pearl harbor survivor.
Monday members of the the Veterans of Foreign Wars gathered on the Veteran’s Memorial Pier in Bay Ridge in memory more than 2,400 people who died in the attack.
Mr Schuler, from San Jose, California, said: ‘I come back just to renew my acquaintance’. Just 48 hours after the attack, Gunter was in Pearl Harbor on board his ship the U.S.S. Saratoga.
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Doyle also recalls the gunners who, while under withering attack, took to their anti-aircraft weapons and tried to take out as many Japanese pilots as they could.
