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Severna Park Women Honor WWII Veterans on Pearl Harbor Day

Five World War II Veterans came to the Hatton-Regester Park adjacent to the S.P. Chamber of Commerce on Pearl Harbor Day to be recognized by appreciative citizens.

On Wednesday, December 7, "A day that will live in infamy", the Severna Park Republican Women's Club honored five WWII local veterans with the laying of a wreath at the WWII  memorial located at the Hatton-Regester property adjacent to the Severna Park Chamber of Commerce.  This day was the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese which marked the entry of the United States into the second world war.

Local resident and former Congresswoman Marjorie Holt - a founding member of the S.P. Republican Women's Club - told the people gathered that she remembers "like it was yesterday" the bombing of Pearl Harbor.  She was 21 at the time and her efforts during the war were those of 'Rosie the Riveter':  She actually worked in an airplane factory.  Her husband Duncan, who could not make it to the ceremony is a veteran of WWII.

Jean Showe, who lives at Sunrise is a survivor of the attack at Pearl Harbor and came with his daughter to the ceremony.  He is now 95 years old and helped to lay the wreath at the memorial along with Amy Leahy, the SPRWC president.  Other local WWII veterans attending the ceremony were James Fava, Odis Taylor, Bob Sacha and Al Johnston.  There are others who were invited but were unable to attend:  Bill Krieger, John Robinson, Marion Titus, Charles Brown and Esther Cohen, who seved as a WAVE during the war.

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Senator Ed Reilly presented Senatorial Citations to the veterans thanking them for their service to our country, and Councilman Dick Ladd also came to say his thanks.

The ceremoney was dampened slightly by the rainy weather but it did not dampen the spirit of the people gathered to remember this monumental day in the history of the United States. 

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