December the Seventh, 1941. 2015 Ceremony

[Rhino]

Jerod, my helper, and I went to the Remember Pearl Harbor proceedings today. It was his first time.
Clarence Pfundheller, from Ottumwa, Iowa, (pictured here in the brown leather jacket, has improved health.
Last year he was riding a wheelchair.

He's a USS Pennsylvania sailor, if memory serves.

It sure was a nice day for December, here in the Frosty North! My old Friend, Lewis Boers, of the USS Utah, is on this monument.

Before & After picture boards;

The memorial is very nice.

One of the many newspaper anecdotes on the Iowa WWII Veterans Memorial

:skipper

 

[Swordsman]

Looks lots of fun & good Memories today a day that lives in infamy ... Thanks for sharing ... :salute :salute :salute

 

[moon puppy]

You can't keep a good man down. :salute

 

[Rhino]

Clarence was aboard the USS Maryland, on 7 December, 1941. I had it wrong. He sure is a feisty old Gent. :captain ldguy

 

[moon puppy]

I've met a lot of those ol' Gents, think they all had some fire in them.

 

[Rhino]

A friend of mine found this;
https://youtu.be/YyZ9b4My6NU
If your heart doesn't stir when you watch, you are a stone.