Ken Potts had just turned 102 a week ago, and had carried memories of the attack throughout the course of his long life.
Sailors were tossed or forced to jump into the oily muck below, and Potts and his fellow sailors pulled some to safety in their boat.
Potts recalled decades later that some people were still giving orders in the midst of the attack but there was also a lot of chaos. He carried his memories of the attack over the course of his long life.Stratton noted that the only remaining survivor from the Arizona is now Lou Conter, who is 101 and living in"This is history.
Stratton said many Arizona survivors shared a similar dry sense of humor. That included his own father, who was severely burned in the attack and also did not want to return to the ship as ashes in an urn.
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