Only USS Arizona survivors can be interred on the ship. Much of it is held fronting a white marble wall engraved with the names of the Arizona sailors and Marines who died in the attack. Only USS Arizona survivors can be interred on the ship. The aircraft shot at "everything in sight," he said. It's hard to imagine that all of the sudden, all of these people are gone," Ted Langdell said.In all, more than 2,300 Americans died in the attack on Pearl Harbor.Bruner didn't know who was attacking until the planes got close enough for him to see the red Rising Sun insignia on their sides. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, His friend Ed Hoeschen, who often accompanied him on these visits, said Bruner never did it for the fame and glory. PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A veteran who survived the attack on Pearl Harbor and died last year at age 94 has been reunited with his fallen shipmates on the sunken USS Arizona.
Most of the bow was instantly separated and the ship was lifted out of the water.Haerry Jr. said his father swam through flaming waters, sweeping his arms in front of him to push the flames away. Raymond Haerry was interred on the ship in a ceremony that his granddaughter says was solemn and beautiful. "I know this part of his life that really did shape him," she said.
The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.Let our news meet your inbox. Haerry, who died in September in Rhode Island, was one of the last surviving veterans of the sinking of the Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor in World War II. 141207-N-IU636-610 PEARL HARBOR (Dec. 7, 2014) Four of the nine remaining USS Arizona survivors, Donald Stratton, left, Louis Conter, John Anderson, and Lauren Bruner, toast in … Bruner makes the 44th and final.
The National Park Service and the Navy conducted the interment.Rear Adm. John Fuller talked about Haerry’s courage— not the absence of fear, but a deep abiding belief in something greater than oneself.“I can’t help but think about him being reunited into these simple, hallowed spaces. The Southern California man will be the 44th and last crew member to be interred in accordance with this rare Navy ritual. "It was really sad, but also really sweet to see.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – A veteran who survived the attack on Pearl Harbor and died last year at age 94 has been reunited with his fallen shipmates on the sunken USS Arizona. He never returned to Pearl Harbor while he lived because the memories were too painful. PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A veteran who survived the attack on Pearl Harbor and died last year at age 94 has been reunited with his fallen shipmates on the sunken USS Arizona.Raymond Haerry was interred on the ship in a ceremony that his granddaughter says was solemn and beautiful.Haerry was 19 years old when bombs started falling on his battleship on Dec. 7, 1941. All rights reserved. The divers will guide the container to the barnacled wreckage and carefully place it inside.Servicemen will then perform a gun salute and present an American flag to next of kin.Daniel Martinez, chief historian for the Pearl Harbor National Memorial, said the Arizona ceremony honors those who survived the bombing while also offering a reminder of the many lives cut short because of it. It was amazing.
(Elaine Simon/Pacific Historic Parks via AP)In this Saturday, April 15, 2017 photo released by Pacific Historic Parks, divers take the urn containing the remains of Raymond Haerry underwater to his final resting place within the sunken hull of the USS Arizona during a ceremony at the USS Arizona Memorial in Honolulu. "It’s a celebration of a life well lived," Martinez said.Also Saturday, the Navy and National Park Service will host their annual public ceremony at Pearl Harbor to remember those killed. And there are a lot of people who come to see the ship,” Bruner told The Associated Press in an interview in 2016, three years before he died in his sleep in September.
At first, Haerry's family was surprised by his request to be laid to rest there, but soon they understood. Over the years, he performed burial ceremonies for many USS Arizona survivors who chose to be interred with their shipmates on the sunken vessel. He shot at Japanese planes from shore. A veteran who survived the attack on Pearl Harbor and died last year at age 94 has been reunited with his fallen shipmates on the sunken USS Arizona.
Of the remaining three, only Conter is planning to attend Bruner’s interment ceremony.