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Amid virus, survivors remember Pearl Harbor at home
79th annual remembrance ceremony is Monday
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Mickey Ganitch, a 101-year-old survivor of the attack on Pearl Harbor, is shown in his home in San Leandro, Calif. - photo by Associated Press
HONOLULU — Navy sailor Mickey Ganitch was getting ready to play in a Pearl Harbor football game as the sun came up on Dec. 7, 1941. Instead, he spent the morning — still wearing his football padding and brown team shirt — scanning the sky as Japanese planes rained bombs on the U.S. Pacific Fleet.
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