(REUTERS) — For the fifth year in a row, Lou Conter made the trip to Honolulu from his Alta Sierra, California, home to remember his USS Arizona shipmates who died in the surprise air attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
Before the 73rd commemoration ceremony started on the Pearl Harbor Visitor Center’s main lawn on Sunday morning, Conter said that he and other survivors started gathering in Honolulu in 1991, and he now plans to come every year that he’s able.
It’s not about him, he noted. “It’s to pay respects to the 2,400 who died that day, 1,177 on the Arizona,” the 93-year-old Conter said.
