Joseph Kralik Jr is the national vice president of the Sons and Daughters of Pearl Harbor Survivors with about 4,000 members from every state, including several hundred from Pennsylvania.
The Pearl harbor Survivors Association disbanded on the 70th anniversary of the attack in 2011, after 53 years of activity. At one point they had as many as 58,000 members, but today that is down to fewer than 2,500.
This weekend, the Sons and Daughters held their annual convention in Charleston, S.C., on board the World War II aircraft carrier USS Yorktown which was launched in 1943.
The group hopes op establish a Pearl Harbor Survivors museum stateside and also is establishing a junior division to attract younger members as the Children of PHS are in their middle age years.
The group also worries about how Pearl Harbor is taught in school.
Most of the time, it receives barely a mention in most classrooms. That was the way it was in my classes for about 15 years. The last 18 years, I taught about it. What started as a 20 minute exercise eventually grew to several class periods.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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