Remembering the Arizona

| published December 8, 2015 |

By Thursday Review staff

During ceremonies at the USS Arizona Memorial, at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, Nelson Mitchell looks at the names etched on the white marble walls of the shrine room of the memorial, which sits atop the spot where the Arizona sank 74 years ago.

Mitchell is the oldest living African-American military survivor of the attacks on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the aerial attack which propelled the United States into World War II. Mitchell attended the event as part of the Family and Friends Harbor Tour at the Joint Base, Pearl-Harbor/Hickam Field. The tour and related events were developed to give survivors and their family members an opportunity to revisit the site, and to enable a new generation of people to learn about the historical significance and honor U.S. military veterans.

This photograph was taken by mass communications specialist 2nd class Tamara Vaughn.

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