December 7, 2014.
The city fire department was dispatched at 8:05, "Without knowing it, the Honolulu Fire Department was going to war. Three firefighters would never return, and six others would be seriously injured.
The ceremony also had a Japanese peace prayer, a Hawaiian blessing and a moment of silence to mark the beginning of the attack at 7:55 a.m. There was a flyover of military planes.
This year will probably be the last one for Ervin Brody, 91, of Houston, who says expense and age rule against it. "A lot of us figure this will be their last one."
Later in the afternoon, the 4 USS Arizona survivors who attended planned to visit the memorial and have a toast to their fallen comrades with glasses of sparkling wine given to the survivors by President Gerald Ford. They will be using replica glasses of those aboard their ship.
After the toast, divers will place one of the glasses at the base of the Arizona gun turret four, which also has the ashes of 38 survivors who have since died.
--The Greatest Generation. --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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