Dec 07 2006
Remembering Pearl Harbor
“December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy.” – F.D.R.
On the 65th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, survivors meet again for what they consider to be the last time:
The survivors have met here every five years for four decades, but they’re now in their 80s or 90s and are not counting on a 70th reunion. They have made every effort to report for one final roll call.
“We’re like the dodo bird. We’re almost extinct,” said Middlesworth, now an 83-year-old retiree from Upland, Calif., but then [on Dec. 7, 1941] an 18-year-old Marine on the USS San Francisco.
We are witnessing what may be the final chapter for a generation defined as the greatest.
