Posted on 11/03/2022 4:15:28 PM PDT by DFG
The last known Pearl Harbor survivor in Nevada died in his sleep this week at the age of 99, but not before joking around with his nurses once last time.
Edward 'Ed' Hall died around 2:45 a.m. on Wednesday at the North Las Vegas VA Medical Center, according to his friend Greg Mannarino.
Mannarino told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that he visited his longtime friend the night before he passed away, and that he was 'full of life' as he joked with the nurses.
Hall was in the U.S. Army Air Corps and only 18 years old when Japan launched a surprise attack at Pearl Harbor that left 2,403 Americans dead.
Hall's longtime friend Mannarino visited him on Tuesday, the night before he passed.
'He passed away peacefully in his sleep,' Mannarino confirmed. 'He joked with the nurses last night. Before I left he said "I love you." He seemed still full of life. The doctor told me that "When we went to check on him, he was unresponsive." I just fell over completely. He was the greatest guy, from the greatest generation. Those men were cut from a different cloth.'
Hall had told the Review-Journal in an August 2020 interview that he was saddened to hear that he was believed to be the last living Pearl Harbor survivor in the state of Nevada.
In the interview, he also said that December 7, 1941 was a day he would never forget.
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Salute
Another hero goes to be with his comrades.
Goodbye, Mr. Edward Hall.
Thank you for your service!
Yours was a very different America compared to what we now live in. Different in almost every way.
Why do we have to hear about this from the UK? Where is the American press?
At the bathhouses.
Re Where is the American press:
There is no “American” press; there’s liberal, socialist, retarded democrat sycophants pretending to be journalists.
You can’t put American and liberal in the same sentence. Mutually exclusive terms.
“Where is the American press?”
They don’t even know what Pearl Harbor was.
“We should all remember who we are as a nation...”
Who we were.
RIP
>Where is the American press?
They are captured.
That’s the place the Germans bombed that got President Washington to get us us into the Civil war, right?
T
Our press is too busy calling conservatives fascists. We live in a time where John Belushi’s line in Animal House won’t be thought of as funny but as a “ what’s a Pearl Harbor?” question.
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I just taught a youngster about Pearl Harbor today.
Are there Pearl Harbor survivors in other states?
My father-in-law was a 90 day wonder ensign in the navy. Besides English he spoke French, German, Italian and Spanish so the navy put him in the Pacific of course.
He was at home above the harbor when the Japanese arrived. He left his 5-months pregnant wife and worked without much food or sleep for three days doing rescue and recovery. He learned to dive in about twenty minutes time.
Once the war started the navy had the good sense to put him in the Atlantic where his language skills could be put to use. Later as a lieutenant he got to participate in D-Day. I never heard of anyone who was at both Pearl and D-Day. I learned all this from others at his funeral. He never spoke of it.
The title is confusing. “Final Pearl Harbor survivor in Nevada dies in his sleep, aged 99” For clarity, shouldn’t this read: “Final Pearl Harbor survivor dies in his sleep in Nevada, aged 99”
RIP, Ed Hall.
Are you always like this?
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