Veterans Day Service to Focus on Pearl Harbor in 2012

From the Nov. 6, 2012, Rome (Ga.) News-Tribune.

Bob Kerr, 92, of Atlanta, was originally from Punxsutawney, Pa., and wanted to play professional baseball, but was not good enough.  He enlisted in the Army Air Corps and was happy to be assigned to the Pacific as the war was mostly being fought in Europe.

On Dec. 7, 1941, he was a company clerk and working on the duty roster when the attack began.  The sergeant standing next to him was killed.  For the rest of the war, he was a B-25 gunner and flew mor5e than 40 missions.  Mr. Kerr retired form the Army in 1962.

It is figured that less than 2,000 of the 48,000 Pearl Harbor survivors are still alive.

And This Was 2012.  Much Less Now.  --GreGen