With speeches and salutes, veterans and officials on Saturday commemorated the 78th anniversary of the 1941 sneak attack by
Japan on Pearl Harbor, which brought a previously reluctant
United States into World War II.
A ceremony honoring survivors attended by US Interior Secretary David Bernhardt and Washington's ambassador to
South Korea Harry Harris was held within sight of the sunken USS Arizona, which was bombed in the opening moments of the attack that killed more than 2,400 Americans.
Later in the day, the remains of Lauren Bruner, who died in September at age 98 and was among the last sailors rescued from the
Arizona after it exploded into flames, will be interred in the wreckage.