Generally Speaking: Pearl Harbor remembered at pier ceremony
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, a smaller than usual annual National Pearl Harbor Day Remembrance program took place on the American Veterans Memorial Pier in Bay Ridge. The brief ceremony included a narrative, invocation, the playing of “Taps” and the tossing of memorial wreaths into the waters of New York Bay.
Jack Sanford, past Kings County VFW and VFW District One commander, conducted the program. The participants honored the memory of the more than 2,335 members of the Armed Forces and 68 civilians who perished and the nearly 2,000 who were wounded on Dec. 7, 1941.
Sanford, a US Navy veteran, read the invocation, after which US Army veteran Sgt. Steven Placanica played “Taps” and five wreaths were placed into the waters alongside the pier.