Lauren Bruner was getting ready for church in 1941 on his battleship, the USS Arizona, when the alarm sounded. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor had begun, and Bruner, then 21, scampered up five stories by ladder to the enormous anti-aircraft guns he was responsible for manning. Bruner and a few fellow shipmates shouted to a sailor on the ship moored next to the Arizona to toss over some rope. He was on the USS Coghlan when it bombed Japanese positions on Attu Island in Alaska in 1943. Bruner wants his ashes interred inside his old battleship after he dies, like many other Arizona survivors who have chosen to be buried with their shipmates.

Source: ABC News December 05, 2016 04:52 UTC