From the Sept. 19, 2013 Times.
Edward L. Wentzlaff went to the USS Arizona Memorial in 2011 for the 9th time. He died at age 95 on September 10, 2013, His ashes will join 35 others on December 7, 2013, on the USS Arizona.
In 1941, he was a 24-year-old on the deck of the USS Arizona waiting for church service to begin. he had joined the Navy in 1939.
--GreGen
My Cooter's History Blog has become about 80% World War II anyway, so I figured to start a blog specific to it, especially since we're commemorating its 70th anniversary and we are quickly losing this "Greatest Generation." The quote is taken from Pearl Harbor survivor Frank Curre, who was on the USS Tennessee that day. He died Dec. 7, 2011, seventy years to the day. His photo is below at right.
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