COURTNEY SACCO/CALLER-TIMES Veterans lay a wreath in the water off the side of the Lexington Museum on the Bay during a remembrance ceremony on the 74th anniversary of Pearl Harbor Monday.
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A gathering at home to mark a date, which will live in infamy.
The top USA military commander in the Pacific says December 7, 1941, “must forever remain burned into the American consciousness”.
Another survivor, who identified himself as Woody, shared his experience with a local media outlet.
“I feel we’ve accomplished our mission”, she said. “It was a bad day”.
“I woke up today and said, ‘Bert, today’s the day, ‘” said Davis, who still carries some of her husband’s remains in a locket around her neck. “Because, World War Two’s first casualty (for Tioga County) was Seaman Delmar Sibley, still aboard the USS Arizona”.
“Of what we went through and what is out there that they’re going to have to go through and to be on guard, we were not on full guard, I don’t think, when this happened”, says Morris.
And 93-year-old survivor Tom Berg said he’ll be back.
Oil seeps out of the sunken hull of the USS Arizona before a wreath laying ceremony at the memorial to the battleship in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Monday. The surprise attack led to the entry of the United States into World War II.
Sanders said the attacks impacted his life forever, but he said he can still remember several moments about that day.
With fewer surviving veterans, there are fewer ceremonies remembering the day with fewer parades. “But since joining the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association, they all got together and told each other their stories”.
Officials called it a dry-run for next year’s 75th anniversary, when thousands more are expected to attend.
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More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded. “You ask majority, they don’t know what you’re talking about”.
