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Pearl Harbor survivor helps identify unknown dead

By Audrey McAvoy
Published December 6, 2012 9:43pm ET
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Pearl Harbor survivor helps identify unknown dead
This Dec. 5, 2012 photo at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu shows a gravestone identifying it as the resting place of 7 unknowns from the USS Oklahoma who died in Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. The Navy and National Park Service will honor Ray Emory, a Pearl Harbor survivor who pushed to put ship names on the gravestones and identify unknown remains, on Dec. 7 for his determination to have Pearl Harbor remembered, and remembered accurately. (AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy) | Audrey McAvoy

HONOLULU (AP) — Ray Emory could not accept that more than one quarter of the 2,400 Americans who died at Pearl Harbor were buried, unidentified, in a volcanic crater.

And so he set out to restore names to the dead.

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