Survivors of Pearl Harbor, in their 90s, assemble in Hawaii to commemorate 73rd anniversary of the attack

The attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II is still etched in the memories of over a dozen survivors, each of them more than 90 years old. These men, in their 90s, had assembled in Hawaii this week to share stories as they marked the 73rd anniversary of the Japanese attack. In that attack more than 2,400 sailors, Marines and soldiers were killed.
The gathering was labelled as the last meeting for the USS Arizona Reunion Association that consisted of the remaining nine survivors of the USS Arizona, a battleship that sank in the Dec. 7, 1941, attack. However, Louis Conter does not accept that. He is 93-years-old and from Grass Valley in California and he is confident that whether the rest of the crowd can make it or not, he would be here again.
The men had arrived at the Pearl Harbor visitor center to military salutes, music from the U.S. Navy Pacific Fleet Band and photos from tourists. The survivors also watched a live-feed of a dive along the Arizona's sunken hull – it still holds the bodies of more than 900 of about 1,177 men who died on the battleship. And – two of the survivors have expressed their desire that their bodies be interred in the Arizona’s hull.
One of them is Arizona survivor 94-year-old Lauren Bruner of La Mirada, California and the other is 93-year-old Louis Conter of Grass Valley, California.