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Survivors remember Pearl Harbor at home this year amid virus

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HONOLULU – Navy sailor Mickey Ganitch was getting ready to play in a Pearl Harbor football game as the sun came up on Dec.

7, 1941. Instead, he spent the morning — still wearing his football padding and brown team shirt — scanning the sky as Japanese planes rained bombs on the U.S.

Pacific Fleet.Seventy-nine years later, the coronavirus pandemic is preventing Ganitch and other survivors from attending an annual ceremony remembering those killed in the attack that launched the United States into World War II.

The 101-year-old has attended most years since the mid-2000s but will have to observe the moment from California this year because of the health risks. “That’s the way it goes.

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