By | December 07, 2012
The Veterans of Foreign Wars South Carolina Color Guard posts the Colors during the Pearl Harbor 71st Anniversary Memorial Service Dec. 7, 2012, onboard USS Yorktown (CV 10) at Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum in Mount Pleasant, S.C. The ceremony was held in honor of the 25 known service members from South Carolina who gave their lives during the Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and other military installations. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Rasheen Douglas)
A crowd of more than 400 active duty, veterans and civilians attend the Pearl Harbor 71st Anniversary Memorial Service Dec. 7, 2012, onboard USS Yorktown (CV 10) at Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum in Mount Pleasant, S.C. The ceremony was held in honor of the 25 known men from South Carolina who gave their lives during the Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and other military installations. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Rasheen Douglas)
U.S. Navy Capt. Thomas Bailey, Joint Base Charleston deputy commander, addresses the audience during the Pearl Harbor 71st Anniversary Memorial Service Dec. 7, 2012, onboard USS Yorktown (CV 10) at Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum, Mount Pleasant, S.C. The Yorktown was commissioned in 1943 and named for a carrier that was sunk during the Battle of Midway. The ceremony was held in honor of the 25 known service members from South Carolina who gave their lives during the Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and other military installations. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Rasheen Douglas)
A veteran tosses a wreath into Charleston Harbor from USS Yorktown (CV 10) during the Pearl Harbor 71st Anniversary Memorial Service Dec. 7, 2012, at the Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum, Mount Pleasant, S.C. Tossing a wreath into the sea has been a time-honored Naval tradition symbolizing burial at sea. The ceremony was held in honor of the 25 known men from South Carolina who gave their lives during the Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and other military installations. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Rasheen Douglas)