HONOLULU (AP) — Lou Conter, the last living survivor of the
USS Arizona battleship that exploded and sank during the
Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, has died. He was 102
years old.

His daughter, Louann Daley said Conter passed away at his
home Monday in Grass Valley, California following congestive
heart failure.

The ship sank with more than 80 percent of its 1,500-
man crew, including Rear Admiral Issac C. Kidd.

USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, Hawaii.

The United States Military Academy at West Point, which
has trained generations of American leaders to serve
from the battlefield to the White House, was established
on this day in history, March 16, 1802. 

The academy’s creation was part of the Military Peace
Establishment Act, introduced by Massachusetts
Congressman Joseph Varnum, and signed into law
by President Thomas Jefferson.

President Thomas Jefferson.

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On this day in 1968, the crew and captain of the U.S.
intelligence gathering ship Pueblo were released after
11 months imprisonment by the  government of North
Korea. The ship, and its 83-man crew, was seized by
North Korean warships on January 23, 1968 and
charged with intruding into North Korean waters.

Lt. Cmdr. Lloyd Bucher, commanding officer of the USS
Pueblo, confesses to espionage at a press conference in Pyongyang, North Korea, in 1968, with crew members
looking on.

USS Pueblo today is a Pyongyang, North Korea museum
piece. It was never decommissioned and is the only U.S.
naval vessel in captivity.

    
(September 1, 1927 – January 28, 2004)

At 2:10 p.m. on December 5, 1945, five U.S. Navy Avenger
torpedo-bombers comprising Flight 19 took off from the
Ft. Lauderdale Naval Air Station in Florida on a routine
three-hour training mission. After having completed their
objective, Flight 19 was scheduled to take them due east
for an additional 67 miles, then turn north for 73 miles,
and back to the air station after that, totaling a distance
of 120 miles. They never returned.

Ron Desantis is a Republican politician who became the United
States Representative for Florida’s 6th congressional district in
2013. He has served under the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on the Judiciary, and the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. In 2019, he became Florida’s 46th governor.

He was captain of the varsity baseball team in his senior year at 
Yale University, where he graduated magna cum laude with a B.A.
in History in 2001.

In 2007 he was assigned to SEAL Team One and deployed to Iraq
with the troop surge as the Legal Advisor to the SEAL Commander, Special Operations Task Force-West in Fallujah, and was later
awarded the Bronze Star Medal and the Iraq Campaign Medal for
his service.
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