From the December 7th Chicago Tribune.
Front page and a picture of Dean Garrett, of Freeport, Illinois, who was a 21-year-old surgical assistant stationed at Pearl Harbor that day. He recalled, "Bombs and bombs and bombs and bombs. Ships blowing up...the noise and the casualties. They were terrible."
The national Pearl Harbor Survivors Association (PHSA) will be dissolving January 1, 2012. After that, the local chapters that haven't already dissolved themselves, will have the responsibility to make sure the lessons from that day are not forgotten, will have to shoulder the burden.
The Navy estimates that some 3,000 Pearl Harbor survivors are still alive, with 50 in the Chicago area.
Never Forgetting.
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