US to inter last vet in Pearl Harbor ship

By Audrey McAvoy
Updated December 7 2019 - 9:28am, first published 9:24am
The ashes of Lauren Bruner will be the last to be interred in the USS Arizona in Pearl Harbor.
The ashes of Lauren Bruner will be the last to be interred in the USS Arizona in Pearl Harbor.

On December 7, 1941, then-21-year-old Lauren Bruner was the second-to-last man to escape the burning wreckage of the USS Arizona after a Japanese plane dropped a bomb that ignited an enormous explosion in the battleship's ammunition storage compartment.

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