But this year, the health risks among the aging survivors will prevent them from going. The National Park Service and Navy will jointly host the event this year and the ceremony is also closed to the public.
The gathering will be televised and will feature a moment of silence, a flyover in missing man formation and a speech by the commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet.
Mickey Ganitch served the rest of the war on the USS Pennsylvania, helping recapture the Alaskan islands of Attu and Kiska. The battleship also bombarded Japanese positions to help with the amphibious assaults on Pacific islands of Kwajalein, Saipan and Guam.
Ganitch remained in the U.S. Navy for more than twenty years.
--Pearl Harbor
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