About 30 Pearl Harbor survivors and 100 other World War II veterans gathered at the site of the bombing to remember more than 2,300 U.S. troops killed 80 years ago. They observed a moment of silence at 7:55 a.m., the same minute the attack began.
The USS Chung-Hoon, a guided missile destroyer, passed in front of the pier with its sailors “manning the rails,” or lining the ship’s edge, to honor the World War II veterans present.
“It was just plain good to get back and be able to participate in the remembrance of the day,” Elfring told reporters over the weekend.Elfring was in the Army, assigned to the 251st Coast Artillery, part of the California National Guard on Dec. 7, 1941. He recalled Japanese planes flying overhead and bullets strafing his Army base at Camp Malakole, a few miles down the coast from Pearl Harbor.
“We sometimes talk about our victory in World War II as though it was inevitable. Only a matter of time. But there was nothing inevitable about one sailor’s decision to toss that line,” Del Toro said. David Dilks, 95, traveled to Hawaii from Hatfield, Pennsylvania, with his son-in-law. Dilks enlisted out of high school in 1944, going from playing basketball one day to serving in the Navy the next.
“All of the sailors and soldiers who fought here — you should be proud of them. But more proud of those who didn’t make it,” he said.
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