'It feels like yesterday': Four Pearl Harbor 生存者s 行う／開催する／段階 tearful 再会 in Hawaii to 示す 73rd 周年記念日 of?Japanese attacks
- The men in their 90s gathered 近づく a 記念の that sits on 最高の，を越す of the Arizona, a 戦艦 that sank in the December 7, 1941 attack
- Though it's the last 公式の／役人 生存者 集会 of the USS Arizona 再会 協会, the men said they still 計画（する） to get together in the 未来?
- 'It's always like yesterday when we're out here,' said Louis Conter, 93, of Grass Valley, California
Four of the remaining nine USS Arizona 生存者s of the Pearl Harbor attack are 公約するing this year's 周年記念日 won't be their last 再会.
The men in their 90s gathered for a news 会議／協議会 Tuesday in a building overlooking the 記念の that sits on 最高の，を越す of the Arizona, a 戦艦 that sank in the December 7, 1941 attack.?
Even though it's the last 公式の／役人 生存者 g athering of the USS Arizona 再会 協会, the men said they still 計画（する） to get together, even if not in Hawaii.?
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'I don't think this is going to be our last. We've still got time to go,' said Louis Conter, 93, of Grass Valley, California.?
'We'll be 支援する out here no 事柄 whether the 残り／休憩（する） of the （人が）群がる can make it or not."
Donald Stratton, 92, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, was one of the few 生存者s of a gun director in the 今後 part of the ship.?
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More than 65 per cent of his 団体／死体 was 燃やすd.?
Stratton was 入院させるd for more than year and then was medically 発射する／解雇するd from the 海軍. He then reenlisted a year later.
'The good Lord saved just a few of us,' he said.?
Sunday 示すs the 73rd 周年記念日 of the Japanese attack that killed about 2,400 sailors, 海洋s and 兵士s.?
During a 私的な event Sunday, the four men will toast their shipmates, drinking from replicas of シャンペン酒 glasses from the Arizona.?
They will 株 a 瓶／封じ込める of sparkling ワイン that was a gift to the 生存者s 協会 from 大統領 Gerald Ford's visit to Spain in 1975.
The men arrived at the Pearl Harbor 訪問者 中心 on Tuesday to 軍の salutes, music from the U.S. 海軍 太平洋の (n)艦隊／(a)素早い 禁止（する）d and photos from tourists.?
At the news 会議／協議会, they reminisced about memories of the attack.
'I learned something about 約束,' said John Anderson, 97, of Roswell, New Mexico, 解任するing that he had just gone to church services and was 長，率いるing to breakfast when someone said they saw the 計画（する）s coming.?
He became teary-注目する，もくろむd as he discussed his twin brother dying in the attack.
'It's always like yesterday when we're out here,' Conter said.
The 生存者s on Tuesday also watched a live-料金d of a dive along the Arizona's sunken 船体, which still 持つ／拘留するs the 団体／死体s of more than 900 of about 1,177 men who died on the 戦艦.
Ashes of 38 生存者s are interred there.
国家の Park Service Historian Daniel Martinez, 穏健なing Tuesday's discussion, seemed 打ち勝つ with emotion when he 発表するd that Arizona 生存者 Lauren Bruner, 94, of La Mirada, California, last year 調印するd paperwork for his 意向s to be interred there.?
Conter 計画（する）s to do the same, he said.
'It seems like after a while nobody 支払う／賃金s attention to them anymore, after about five years,' Bruner said of his 決定／判定勝ち（する） not to be buried in a 共同墓地.?
'I hope a lot of people will still be coming over to the Arizona and we'll be glad to see them.'
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