As survivors fade, their descendants and the public are increasingly turning to other ways of learning about the bombing.

Survivors of the 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor have long been the center of a remembrance ceremony held each year on the military base's waterfront.

Volunteers with Operation 85 have obtained 1,400 DNA samples from potential relatives of the Arizona to help identify crew members.

The Jackson County Veterans Council held its fourth annual Pearl Harbor Day observance ceremony on Saturday to honor the lives lost in the attack.

A couple dozen people, many of them military veterans, gathered Sunday at North Little Rock's Arkansas Inland Maritime Museum to pay their respects to history.

A Monroe County father lost all three of his sons in World War II, two of them aboard the USS Arizona. Four other area men also died at Pearl Harbor.

Sunday is Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, marking nearly 85 years since the USS Arizona was sunk, on a day that President Franklin D. Roosevelt said would “live in infamy.” And, it turns out, the ship has been leaking oil since that time.

The US Navy, in coordination with the Pearl Harbor National Memorial, removed significant portions of two World War II-era mooring platforms from the USS Arizona in October to help preserve the historic ship.