George Drace, a great-grandfather of quadruplets, was guarding a site where searchlights were being built when Japanese bombers attacked Pearl Harbor on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941. He is the last living member of a group of Pearl Harbor survivors who used to visit schools to tell younger generations about their experiences.
Bruce R. Posten of the Reading Eagle reports that Drace became a corporal and served most of his time in World War II in Hawaii with the 55th Coastal Artillery, but also wound up in the Philippines and on Guadalcanal and Okinawa.
Drace, 88, recalls that historic day philosophically:
