The town of Stagecoach held its own World War II Pearl Harbor rededication ceremony for the memorial that was originally installed in 1991.
Survivors of the 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor have long been the center of a remembrance ceremony held each year on the military base’s waterfront. But today only 12 are still alive. All are centenarians, and this year none were able to make the pilgrimage to Hawaii to mark the event Sunday. That means no one who attended had firsthand memories of serving during the attack, which killed more than 2,300 troops and catapulted the U.S. into World War II. The development comes as the survivors fade from the scene and their descendants and the public increasingly turn to other ways to learn about the bombing…