Happy Birthday to Lou Conter, a Pearl Harbor survivor and the last crew member of the battleship USS Arizona sunk by Japanese bombs at its Hawaii moorings. He is a member of the Incline Village Nevada Veterans Club. My friend Lou is 102. The bombing of the USS Arizona was the deadliest event of the Pearl Harbor attacks, claiming the lives of 1,117 people out of the total of 2,403 casualties. Today the battleship still sits where it sank eight decades ago, with more than 900 dead entombed inside. Lou received a medal for rescuing several of his shipmates, many of whom saw their skin come off in his hands due to severe burns.
