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December 07, 2009

Lt. John William Finn, USN, Medal of Honor

Here's a great story as we remember the attack on Pearl Harbor 68 years ago today.

There were fifteen men awarded the Medal of Honor for their heroism on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941. Only five survived that horrible day. Only one of them remains.
Lt. John William Finn, USN (Ret.) turned 100 years old on July 23 of this year, and he'll be attending the Pearl Harbor commemoration ceremony at the U.S.S. Arizona Memorial today in Hawaii, returning to the Kaneohe Bay waters where he mounted an impressive one-man attack on Japanese fighter planes in the ambush that pulled the U.S. into World War II. Because the bay was attacked several minutes before Pearl Harbor proper, Finn is often called the first Medal of Honor recipient of World War II

On his birthday this year, the Navy gave him a flag that had flown over every aircraft carrier in the fleet, a flag that went around the world (photos linked).

I'll just add my thanks to those of MKH. Thank you Lt. Finn.

story sent by DrewM.

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