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At 70th anniversary, urgency to observe WWII, honor vets

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Wartime photo of Sen. Daniel Inouye.

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  • Otmar Bohac walks between the buses to look at the memorials at Arlington National Cemetery on April 12, 2011. More than 200 West Texas World War II veterans were escorted on a tour of war memorials in the nation's capital as guests of the West Texas Honor Flight. Two 737 airplanes and several chartered buses transported the veterans at no cost to them.
  • Ulyes Dickens, left, walks up a ramp on the Atlantic side of the World War II Memorial to get a look at the Texas column, April 12, 2011. A group of more than 200 West Texas World War II veterans went on a one-day, whirlwind tour of war memorials in the nation's capital called the West Texas Honor Flight. Two 737 airplanes and several chartered buses transported the veterans at no cost to them.
  • In a moment of remembrance, veterans went silent as a single Navy trumpeter, Senior Chief Gerald Keehner, played Taps on Sept. 23, 2010.
  • Wreckage of USS Arizona, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Dec. 7, 1941.
  • Wartime photo of Sen. Daniel Inouye.
  • New Jersey Sen. Frank Lautenberg addresses a group of veterans aboard the USS New Jersey during a ceremony to collect recorded oral histories of former servicemen. Lautenberg is one of the last three veterans of World War II serving in Congress, and says the war and the education he received through the GI Bill was a turning point in his life. He spent four years in the Army Signal Corps and went on to help found and lead the payroll processing firm ADP for more than 30 years before being elected to the United States Senate five times.
  • Sen. Daniel Inouye of Hawaii had to petition the U.S. government to serve in the Army during World War II after he and other Japanese-Americans were declared enemy aliens after Pearl Harbor. He lost his right arm during an attack on a German machine gun in April 1945. This action earned him the Medal of Honor. He went on to college and law school after the war and then to a career in politics that brought him to the Senate in 1962. Now in his ninth term, he is President Pro Tem of the Senate and continues to be an ardent supporter of veterans.
  • A southern Alabama veteran and his guardian walk along the National World War II Memorial, past the Lincoln Memorial and Reflecting Pool on Sept. 23, 2010.
  • Dorothy Hansen, left, and Mattie 'Pearl' Gummelt laugh as they get their picture taken by guardians in front of the Texas column at the World War II Memorial on April 12, 2011. Lifelong friends, both women joined the Navy together as nurses during the war. Roughly 400,000 women served in WWII, including 16 who died in combat and 527 who died from non-combat causes.
  • Wartime image of Sen. Frank Lautenberg.

For Sen. Frank Lautenberg, surviving World War II was, more than once, a matter of luck. Lautenberg was among hundreds of thousands of Allied soldiers working in and around the Belgian port of Antwerp in late 1944, when Nazi Germany fought desperately to take it back.

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