USS Arizona survivor rejoins shipmates, interred aboard ship
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – One of the last surviving veterans of the sinking of the USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor has been reunited with his shipmates.
Raymond Haerry was interred on the ship in a ceremony that his granddaughter says was solemn and beautiful.
Haerry never returned to Pearl Harbor while he lived because the memories from Dec. 7, 1941, were too painful. As he neared the end of his life, he told his family he’d like to be laid to rest there.
Haerry died Sep
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