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Good morning all from Pearl Harbor, where the 82d anniversary ceremony has just concluded. It’s a beautiful morning here, just as it was that terrible Sunday when the attack began at 7:55 a.m. A moving ceremony, with all branches of the services represented, a fly by with missing man formation, and the guided missile destroyer USS Decatur passed in review and rendered honors. Six Pearl Harbor survivors were in attendance and honored this morning. Unfortunately, my friend Lou Conter, last survivor of the USS Arizona, aged 102, was not able to attend, though his grand nephew, Ray Hower, delivered stirring...

TOMBSTONE - On the corner of Fremont and Sixth streets in this town famous for the Shootout at the O.K. Corral, there is a museum dedicated to the lore and history of the Old West. With a collection of more than 25,000 items, ranging from small bottles to leg irons from the Arizona Territorial Prison in Yuma to documents like one demanding $3.50 "to remove one dead horse" in Tombstone to one-of-a-kind photos to historic guns to the original roulette table from the Crystal Palace, on display, soon another connection to the state's history will be officially unveiled - saved...