Pearl Harbor salute

[Mackaydon]

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) — Ira “Ike” Schab, a 104-year-old Pearl Harbor attack survivor, was so determined to stand and salute during a remembrance ceremony honoring those killed in the Japanese bombing that thrust the U.S. into World War II some 83 years ago that he spent six weeks in physical therapy to build the strength to do so.

On Saturday, Schab gingerly rose from his wheelchair and raised his right hand, returning a salute delivered by sailors on a destroyer and a submarine passing by in the harbor.

2 Pearl Harbor survivors, ages 104 and 102, return to Hawaii to honor those killed in 1941 attack

Ira “Ike” Schab, a 104-year-old Pearl Harbor attack survivor, was so determined to stand and salute during a remembrance ceremony honoring those killed in the Japanese bombing that thrust the U.S. into World War II some 83 years ago that he spent six weeks in physical therapy to build the...

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[russau]

I owe this SALUTE to my uncle Russ Pearce that served in the Pacific during ww2 He was Lt. Col in the Naval Air . He was one of many volunteers that stood up during the drop of the A-bomb on the Bikini Atol during operation Cross Roads ..... he died of Cancer in 68 when I was in RVN Gods speed to our hero's