Six men from the U.S. Army, six from the U.S. Navy and the names of a wife and daughter.
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Today, many veterans and citizens of Marietta gathered to remember the lives lost at Pearl Harbor. Almost half of those who perished at Pearl Harbor were sailors aboard the battleship USS Arizona, which Japanese torpedo bombers sank early in the attack, sending 1,177 of its 1,400-member crew to their deaths.
Two survivors of the attack and some other U.S. veterans, including 110-years-old Frank Levingston, reportedly the oldest USA living World War II veteran, attended the ceremony, Xinhua reported.
December 7th marks the 74th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Ducey met with veterans and active-duty service Sunday leading up to the day of remembrance.
“Everything seemed to stop in its place, we had classes dismissed on Monday so we could listen to President Roosevelt declare war on Japan”, says Hamilton.
“I thought the ceremony was so special”, Ducey said.
Monday’s ceremony at Fort Allen Park in Portland was fittingly held among the park’s remnants of the USS Portland, a World War II-era heavy cruiser that famously accepted the Japanese surrender of the Truk Island air and naval base on September 7, 1945. About 3,000 people were expected to join the survivors.
“Pearl Harbor is really one of those watershed events: It mobilized American people and ended the divisive debate over America’s role in the world”, Piehler told the Democrat in 2011. “I got up in there and I think there were probably four Marines that had been wounded and I did what I could for them”.
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Adm. Harry Harris, the top US military commander in the Pacific, said the day “must forever remain burned into the American consciousness”. “I never thought I’d live to see a day like this”, Frank Levingston said.
