It was inevitable. The Pearl Harbor Survivors Association will observe the 70th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor on this day in 1941. It will be the Association’s last observance. The group has too few remaining members to carry on and will disband on Dec. 31. The organization was founded in 1958 with 28,000 members, all of whom were were at or in the vicinity of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii during the Japanese attack of December 7, 1941. The association now has fewer than 10% of it original numbers and the continuing death toll due to age continues to reduce the number of survivors. Twenty years ago at the 50th anniversary, 7,000 survivors attended the memorial ceremonies. This year roughly 125 are expected to be able to attend.
Pearl Harbor Still a Day for the Ages, but a Memory Almost Gone
Perhaps Miami Beach is feeling a certain solidarity with Koblentz, Germany. Today an M57 US Navy training mine washed up on Miami Beach. Fortunately the mine was inert and did not contain explosive. Yesterday, bomb disposal experts successfully defused two World War II vintage bombs which had become exposed on the Rhine riverbanks at Koblentz, when water levels dropped due to an ongoing drought.
Twenty five years ago today, the ore-bulk-oil carrier 
Last January, three divers, Charles Buffum, Mike Fournier and Craig Harger, announced that they had located the wreck of 
Two men, aged 53 and 26, from the Pacific Ocean island nation of Kiribati, who had been missing for 33 days, came ashore over 300 miles away on the on Namorik Atoll, in the Marshall Islands. The men were reported to be weak, but otherwise not in bad shape, considering their ordeal. Apparently their arrival was not entirely unusual.