Pearl Harbour dead honoured in ceremony reduced by pandemic

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US servicemen and women and National Park Service officials gathered at Pearl Harbour to remember those killed in the attack — but elderly survivors stayed home to pay their respects from afar to avoid health risks from the coronavirus pandemic.

The USS Arizona battleship bell rang at 7:55am, the minute the attack began 79 years ago, to start a moment of silence.