LAKEPORT, Calif. – The community is invited to take part in the annual commemoration of the attack on Pearl Harbor on Monday, Dec. 7.
Pearl Harbor Survivors, Chapter 23 North, will host the ceremony, which will be held from 9 to 9:15 a.m. at Library Park and 9:15 to 10 a.m. in the council chambers across the street at Lakeport City Hall, 225 Park St.
This year marks the 74th anniversary of the attack, in which the Empire of Japan targeted the US Navy base at Pearl Harbor on an early Sunday morning in December 1941.
More than 2,400 members of the United States military died in the attack, which led to Congress voting the following day to enter World War II.
On Monday, Lake County's last living Pearl Harbor survivor, Bill Slater of Lakeport, is anticipated to be in attendance.
At the time of the attack, Slater was a 17-year-old sailor aboard the USS Pennsylvania.
Also expected to be on hand for the event is Alice Darrow, one of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association's “sweethearts” – the name for widows of attack survivors. Her husband, Dean Darrow, was aboard the USS West Virginia. Dean Darrow died in 1991.
The guest speaker at the Monday ceremony will be Lake County Sheriff Brian Martin, a US Army veteran.
The Lake County Military Honors Team will take part in the ceremony, and the Mendo-Lake Singers Sweet Adelines will sing the national anthem.
The annual commemoration is organized by Ronnie and Janeane Bogner of Clearlake Oaks, who have been involved with the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association since 2002.
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