From the November 11, 2022, Las Vegas Review-Journal by Mark Credico.
Dozens of people gathered on Veterans Day at the Las Vegas Masonic Memorial Temple to pay tribute to Ed Hall who died November 2 at age 99.
In 2017, Mr. Hall received his high school diploma. He had not gotten it earlier because he enlisted in the Army at age 16. He was 18 when Pearl Harbor was attacked..
He was cleaning a frying pan in the mess hall at Hickam Field when the attack came. After he was pulled to cover and regained his wits, Hall commandeered a pickup truck and drove around the base for hours with a medic to rescue as many wounded as he could find. At one point, multiple bullets came through the cab of the truck, missing them, but shattering the windshield.
Hall lost a lot of friends that, something that he never forgot.
Hall's ashes will be interred in the Punchbowl Memorial Cemetery on Hawaii.
--GreGen
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