From the Dec. 20, 2014, Green Bay (Wis) Gazette " Pearl Harbor Survivor gets deserving final salute" by Scott Cooper Williams.
Rich Cmeyla, 96, was 23 that day and died last week. He was among perhaps the last 20 Wisconsin survivors and was the last survivor of the attack from Kewaukee County.
He was from Luxembourg, Wis. and after graduating from Algoma High School, enlisted in the Navy and was transferred to Hawaii just a few months before the attack.
He was getting ready for church when it started and remembered looking up and seeing a Japanese pilot waving at him.
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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