The U.S. Navy Ceremonial Guard performs a rifle salute at the Arizona Memorial during the 72nd anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor at the WW II Valor in the Pacific National Monument in Honolulu, Hawaii on December 7,2013. REUTERS/Hugh Gentry
Elderly Survivors Commemorate Pearl Harbor Attack -- Reuters
(Reuters) - American survivors of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, many in their 90s, gathered on Saturday for the 72nd anniversary of the attack that took the lives of more than 2,000 of their peers and thrust the United States into World War Two.
Many used wheelchairs, while others leaned on canes or relied on the help of family members as they commemorated the attack of December 7, 1941, a date that President Franklin Roosevelt said "will live in infamy."
"We're getting to be fewer and fewer every time," said Robert Irwin, an 89-year-old retired lieutenant with the San Francisco Fire Department.
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