(USS Arizona Memorial Foundation)In 2017, Stratton and Bruner presented the Bronze Star for valor posthumously to George by way of his daughter, Joe Ann Taylor, at the Pearl Harbor memorial in Hawaii. Donald Stratton and Lauren Bruner sit inside the Pearl Harbor memorial. In September, the San Diego chapter of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Assn., perhaps the last in the country still in operation, held its final meeting. The USS Arizona Memorial is one of Hawaii’s most popular sites, with more than 1 million visitors a year. And there are a lot of people who come to see the ship,” Bruner told the Associated Press in 2016.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 07, 2019 12:56 UTC