- Elizabeth Larson
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Community gathers to remember 76th anniversary of Pearl Harbor attack
LAKEPORT, Calif. – Dozens of community members gathered in Lakeport on Thursday morning to participate in the annual commemoration of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
The ceremony began at the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association’s memorial mast in Lakeport’s Library Park at 9 a.m.
There, the American flag was raised on the mast, Chaplain Woody Hughes gave the invocation, and the Military Funeral Honors Team performed a rifle volley and played “Taps.”
Master of ceremonies Ronnie Bogner, who along with wife Janeane has organized the event for many years, then led the group to the council chambers at Lakeport City Hall, where a slide show was presented along with a video honoring many of Lake County’s well-known survivors.
The county’s remaining Pearl Harbor survivor, 93-year-old Bill Slater of Lakeport, was unable to attend due to ill health.
A video of the outdoor ceremony is featured above, while the video commemorating survivors – created by John Jensen of Lake County News – is shown below.
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