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Friday marks a week since Fire Controlman 3rd Class Robert Thomas Stout was laid to rest with military honors in Cottonwood cemetery in Northern California. He was, until recently, one of the unknown sailors killed during the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

Hiroshima and Pearl Harbor, two symbols of World War II animosity between Japan and the United States, are now promoting peace and friendship through a sister park arrangement. U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel and Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui signed a sister park agreement on Thursday for Hiroshima’s Peace Memorial Park and the Pearl Harbor National Memorial of Hawaiʻi.

Pearl Harbor historian Dan Martinez is retiring from the National Park Service after 44 years. He has worked over the many decades to put history in context and highlight overlooked stories of our past.

Jack Holder, a Pearl Harbor survivor who went on become a decorated World War II flyer, has died in Arizona. He was 101.

Joseph Eskenazi was at the Army's Schofield Barracks when the Dec. 7, 1941, attack began, bringing the United States into the war. About 2,400 servicemen were killed.

Eighty-one years ago, the Japanese Navy launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, bringing the United States into World War II. As part of an ongoing project with the UH Mānoa Center for Oral History, we bring you the voices of those who witnessed that day in Honolulu.

A handful of centenarian survivors of the attack on Pearl Harbor gathered at the scene in Hawaiʻi to commemorate those who perished 81 years ago in the Japanese bombing. That’s fewer than in recent years, when a dozen or more came to Hawaiʻi from across the country to pay their respects at the annual remembrance ceremony.

Dec. 7 marks the 81st anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Rosie the Riveter has become symbolic of the war effort by women across the country who stepped in to do the jobs of many men who joined the military during World War II.

This week the U.S. Navy and the National Park Service will host a remembrance ceremony at Pearl Harbor on the 81st anniversary of the 1941 Japanese bombing.

Thousands of families and businesses on the Navy’s water system don’t have to imagine a water crisis — they are living through it. The Conversation talked to residents who have been forced to pick up bottled water supplied by the Navy. Capt. Mark Sohaney, commander of Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, also shared the latest on water line repairs.