Pearl Harbor Survivors

Dec. 7, 1941, "Day That will live in Infamy."

Taken from various accounts of papers around the nation.

Yuba City, Az, resident Joe Langdell, 94, will be going to the ceremony at the USS Arizona Memorial. He was on the Arizona that day and is a member of the USS Arizona Reunion Association and the Feather River Chapter of the PHSA.

The Arizona Association meets every five years, and the next one was scheduled for 2011, but moved up to this year because of rapidly declining membership.

Langdell intends to have his ashes interned with his shipmates aboard the Arizona, a service available since the mid-1980s.

About sixty survivors are expected to attend the ceremony.

From Dec. 4th Appeal-Democrat.

FROM THE SANIBEL-CAPTIVA ISLANDER (FL)-- Eugene Spencer, 96, moved to Sanibel in the mid-70s and will attend the 66th Annual Pearl Harbor Survivors Association Reunion in Fredericksburg, Texas. He was a First Class Petty Officer on the destroyer USS Dobbins during the attack.

He remembers, "The boats were floating in oil. The people were jumping from the ships into the water."

FROM THE DEC. 5TH FRAMINGHAM (Mass) TAB-- Gerald Halterman, 87, was stationed on the USS Oklahoma that day. He was evidently not on board and was unable to get a gun and found cover near a ball field and watched the attack. He remembers after the attack that the guards were so nervous he wouldn't go out at night for fear of getting shot.

The Greatest Generation.