The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Pearl Harbor Veterans

From March 29, 2012, KSAT, San Antonio, Tx. Gordon Poling died March 29th. He joined the Army at age 16 and served six years before joining the US Marine Corps where he had a real long career.He was stationed at Kaneohe, Hawaii, Dec. 7, 1941, and remembered Japanese planes circling the field.

From the March 30, 2012, Duncan (Ok) banner. Pearl harbor survivor Roland Nee served 29 years during World War II, Korea and Vietnam and was honored by the Oklahoma House of Representatives.

He was born Oct. 22, 1922, in Winchester, Mass. He enlisted in the Army Jan. 1941 at the age 18. Dec. 7, 1941, he was at Pearl harbor as a gunner.

We're Losing These men Too Fast. --GreGen

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