Tag: Pearl Harbor
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Soon no Pearl Harbor survivors will be alive. People turn to other ways to learn about the bombing
HONOLULU (AP) — Survivors of the 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor have long been the center of a remembrance ceremony held each year on the military base’s waterfront. But today only 12 are still alive — all centenarians — and this year none were able to make the pilgrimage to Hawaii to mark the…
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Beloved WWII vet dies in Colorado months short of 101st birthday after assault
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save For 80 years, Kenneth Barhite began each day with a set of pushups. It was a part of his morning routine he learned at basic training in 1942. As the years passed, the number of pushups declined from 100 to 50 and then to 30, as…
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Colorado man working to get USS Arizona unknowns identified
A Colorado man is determined that human remains from the USS Arizona are DNA tested and identified after a Pentagon agency in February suggested exhuming 85 gravesites marked “unknown” and entombing the dead in the sunken battleship at Pearl Harbor. Randy Stratton — son of Donald Stratton, who survived the surprise attack the morning of Dec.…
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Colorado honors National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Gov. Jared Polis ordered the Colorado and American flags to be lowered to half staff on all public buildings statewide Monday in honor of National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day has…