From the November 28th Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
Mike Randazzo, spokesman for the Old Philadelphia Navy Yard is trying to locate Pennsylvania Pearl Harbor survivors for a Remembrance to be held at the Harrisburg, Pa., capitol on the 7th of December, the 69th anniversary of the attack that caused the US to enter World War II.
A total of 925,000 Pennsylvanians served and 26,000 died.
In 2002, 25 attended the Pennsylvania Remembrance. In 2009, just 7 showed.
Floyd Laughlin, 93, of McDonald, Pa., served in a searchlight unit at Fort Kamchameha near Pearl Harbor. He was standing on the barracks porch when the Japanese attack began, "I could watch the harbor from where I was standing. I watched the Arizona go up."
He used to be president of the local chapter of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association which once had five chapters statewide, but now is down to one with only a couple guys. They haven't had a meeting in a long time.
The Greatest Generation. --DaCoot
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