By Shanon Burke
SEQUIM — The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor 64 years ago still has the power to affect and bring people together today.
A remembrance ceremony for Pearl Harbor held at Marlyn Nelson Park near Port Williams on Wednesday featured several people whose lives were touched in various ways by the events on the day that will live in infamy.
And the events that followed it.
Similar observances took place Wednesday across the nation.
Winford “Wink” Mays, 83, a survivor of the attack at Pearl Harbor, joined with bugler Al Willis and Dungeness Community Church Youth Pastor Wayne Yamamoto to raise the flag Wednesday morning.
Mays was aboard the battleship USS Nevada during the 1941 attack.
The men then went to Sequim High School and spoke to the sophomore class.
Yamamoto, 49, whose parents were interned during World War II in Arizona as potential enemy sympathizers, said being a part of the ceremony honoring the sacrifices of veterans was an honor.
