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Ceremony Honors Those Killed in Pearl Harbor Attack

Associated Press

   PEARL HARBOR, HAWAII - More than 2,000 people attended a ceremony
   Saturday to remember those killed when Japanese planes bombed Pearl
   Harbor 78 years ago and launched the U.S. into World War II.

   Organizers of the public event at the Hawaii naval base saidattendees
   included about a dozen survivors of the December7, 1941, attack, the
   youngest of whom are now in their late 90s.
   Herb Elfring, 97, of Jackson, Michigan, said being back at Pearl Harbor
   remindedhim of all those whohad lost their lives.
   ``It makes you think of all the servicemen who have passed ahead of me.
   As a Pearl Harbor survivor, I'm one of the last chosen few, I guess.''
   He's the only member of his regiment still living.

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