From the herald "Rock Hills Pearl Harbor survivor buried with military honors."
The last of six local Pearl harbor survivors in York County died Feb. 11, 2013.
L.C. Rice was 18, and a machinist seaman on the USS Pennsylvania that day. He remembered holding a dying sailor, though he never knew his name. The sailor's body was nothing but torn flesh, cracked bones, face missing and a bloody torso. Mr. Rice shouted into the sailor's ear, "You ain't dying for nothing. I promise you."
He served in the military another 32 years and was also in the Korean and Vietnam Wars,
--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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