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Title: For the first time, no surviving USS Arizona member could make the ceremony.
Post by: freakazoid on January 12, 2019, 09:09:45 AM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2018/12/07/first-time-pearl-harbor-remembrance-takes-place-without-single-uss-arizona-survivor-present/?utm_term=.67ce2a1dd667

There are currently five surviving USS Arizona members. This last Pearl Harbor remembrance ceremony none of them were able to make it, although other survivors were there. Also the then oldest Pearl Harbor survivor had passed away November 21st at 106.
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