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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe last survivor of the USS Arizona has died
at age 102. The you for your service Lou Conter, I cannot imagine what you went through on that awful day.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/lou-conter-survivor-uss-arizona-pearl-harbor-attack-108719354
sarisataka
(22,837 posts)Your duty is complete
Dem2theMax
(11,005 posts)TomSlick
(13,092 posts)OldSWODog
(137 posts)Taps, taps. OSD
moniss
(9,150 posts)in the coming days that I did for some friends about a year ago. About WW2 and some miraculous things and circumstances.
MustLoveBeagles
(17,265 posts)🫡
I helped take care of a Pearl Harbor survivor on my unit, several years back. He was 102 at the time, IIRC. He was really sick from heart failure. My three shifts for the week were split up, and when I came back later in the week for my third, he was gone.
twodogsbarking
(19,340 posts)StarryNite
(12,167 posts)angrychair
(12,504 posts)Thank you for your service Commander Conter.
2naSalit
(103,809 posts)Bundbuster
(4,018 posts)senseandsensibility
(25,515 posts)VGNonly
(8,552 posts)118,000 are still alive, about 130 die everyday.
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