LAKEPORT — Nearly 100 people attended the Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day event at Library Park Wednesday morning to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Japanese attack on the U.S. Navy base.
The outdoor ceremony featured the Lake County Military Funeral Honors Team, a prayer, “Pledge of Allegiance” recitation, a short speech and the raising of a flag at the Pearl Harbor Memorial Mast.
The Pearl Harbor Survivors Association Chapter 23 North hosted the event.
A majority of the attendees moved into City Hall as association members spoke about the attack.
Speakers included current Lake County residents who were on active duty at Pearl Harbor, widows of survivors and the daughter of a dry-dock inspector.
Steve Davis, the former commander of the California Highway Patrol Clear Lake Area, was the guest speaker. He told the stories of his father and grandfather, who both worked at a Navy shipyard in San Pedro during World War II.
“Father and son worked together until the Japanese surrendered,” Davis said.
The ceremony at City Hall concluded soon after the survivors honored former association members who died before 2000. Local Pearl Harbor survivors who died in the past decade were set to be honored during a luncheon at Woody”s Caf? in Kelseyville.
