{"id":81368,"date":"2018-08-24T11:00:24","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T15:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=81368"},"modified":"2018-08-24T10:32:32","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T14:32:32","slug":"another-one-leaves-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=81368","title":{"rendered":"Another One Leaves Us…."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Briefly, Ray Emory, a survivor of the attack on Pearl Harbor, passed away in a hospital in Boise, ID, with family members present.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2018\/08\/21\/pearl-harbor-survivor-who-pushed-identify-unknowns-dies.html<\/a><\/p>\n

“Chief Emory fought back that day, manning his machine gun, taking on enemy planes,” Rear Adm. Brian Fort, commander, Navy Region Hawaii and Naval Surface Group Middle Pacific, said at the ceremony honoring Emory. “He continued to fight on throughout the War in the Pacific. He and his buddies, with help from the home front, helped create an unprecedented era of peace, stability and prosperity. Victory at the end of World War II was Ray’s finest hour.”<\/p>\n

During the attack on Pearl Harbor, Emory managed to fire a few rounds at the airplanes that dropped the torpedoes. He still had an empty bullet casing that fell to his ship deck.<\/p>\n

Chief Emory pushed the VA and the government to identify the remains of servicemen from the USS Oklahoma, who were buried as “unknowns” in a national cemetery in Hawaii. He met with rebuff and was sometimes told where to go, but he stuck to his guns and insisted that at least one casket be exhumed and the remains identified. His doing so started the ball rolling on the DPAA’s current project to identify the missing from WWII on up through Vietnam.<\/p>\n

Fair winds and following seas, Chief. See you on the other side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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