Upper Marlboro Group Headed to Pearl Harbor Commemorations
Local unit of Young Marines heads to Hawaii to pay tribute to fateful 1941 attack.
A group of local youngsters will be traveling to Hawaii next week to take part in the ceremonies to commemorate the 71st anniversary of the attacks on Pearl Harbor which launched the United States into World War II. A unit from the Upper Marlboro chapter of the Young Marines, a youth education and service program for school-age boys and girls, will be joining Young Marines from across the nation to lay a wreath at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific on Thursday, Dec. 6. “Undoubtedly, the Young Marines will meet some of the survivor of that historic event of 71 years ago,” said Michael Kessler, national executive director of the Young Marines. “Those veterans are, in every sense of the words - living history, and each has a …
