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'They were burned pretty badly:' Pearl Harbor survivor aboard USS Arizona remembers attack 79 years later

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Monday marked the 79th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, which precipitated the entry of the United States into World War II. "It is a day that nobody will ever forget, in my memory or anyone who was there," Lou Conter told "The Story" Monday.

The 99-year-old Conter, one of the last two living survivors of the sinking of the USS Arizona, has returned to Hawaii annually to commemorate the attack, but was prevented from doing so this year by the coronavirus pandemic. "Everyone on the ship served with distinction, because they were highly trained, and I believe that's one of the greatest acts that American sailors and officers of the Navy, the Army, the Air Force at the time could do," he told host Martha MacCallum.

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