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This art at the American Legion in Post Falls depicts the USS Arizona Memorial.

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Pearl Harbor always on their minds
December 7, 2022 1:07 a.m.

Pearl Harbor always on their minds

PF American Legion vets reflect on Dec. 7

Just inside the front door of American Legion Post 143 in Post Falls is a 100-year-old piece of Hawaiian koa wood. It's beautiful, but it's what is embedded in that wood that gives meaning for veterans. It's a piece of steel artifact that was removed from the superstructure of the USS Arizona that was sunk in the Dec. 7, 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, taking with it 1,177 sailors and Marines. Even though it was 81 years ago, the day is well remembered by veterans.