Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day 2009 in links
Monday, December 07, 2009
Here's a roundup of Pearl Harbor stories from the Pacific Northwest:
The Kitsap Sun put together a package of stories, photos and videos featuring 12 local Pearl Harbor survivors. They also found a woman who has a rare picture of Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in 1942 hanging on her wall. She explains why the photo is so distinctive. In its coverage of the annual remembrance ceremony at Keyport, the Sun quoted a survivor who said: "There are not many of us left. As long as there is one man left, keep this alive."
Don Raleigh, who served on USS Maryland at Pearl Harbor, told the Seattle Times his training kicked in when he saw bombs start dropping and he didn't have time to be scared.
In The Herald of Everett, classmates from Everett High School's class of 1940 recall hearing about the Pearl Harbor attacks while on a troop train from Fort Lewis to San Francisco. Also, Pearl Harbor survivor Walt Bailey of Marysville is one of the World War II veterans whose stories were recorded for a Sno-Isle Libraries project.
The family of a local Pearl Harbor survivor discovered a mast pulley from USS Arizona at his home after his death last year.
A Pearl Harbor survivors group in Spokane still gets together once a month but is down to just four or five people per meeting from 82 when it got started around 1960, reports the Spokesman-Review.
KOMO covered the Naval Station Everett remembrance ceremony on the pier next to the USS Ford.
The Oregonian had its own roundup of links from Oregon, Washington and Idaho.