But remember this trip for the family members live, even those who have never met.
On 69 days this year, three sailors died aboard the USS Arizona, all classmates Monterey Oak Grove neighborhood, to their battle stations when the Japanese surprise attack sank a large part of U.S. Navy Pacific Fleet at its anchorage in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
They were second class Yeoman Michael Criscuolo and seafarers 1 Class Thomas Trovato and John "Jack" Hazdovac.
All three went to Oak Grove Union Grammar School and Monterey High School and joined the Navy right after graduation. They were assigned to the Arizona training camp in San Diego and Navy have been so for the final, fatal rendezvous with history.
Trovato was part of the crew of the battleship before the main gun of the turret when he was killed.
Hazdovac Criscuolo and Navy accounts to their fate, you met a wounded officer helped to safety during the attack.
The remains of three men are still buried in the rubble of Arizona, which lies in the mud of Pearl Harbor.
Mike Trovato Monterey was just high school to plan and follow his older brother Tom, and cousin Mike in the Navy. He joined the day he heard the news of the attack and was on board a ship near the Arizona destroyed within two months, creating a bond
Uniform."We were really rookies," he said. "We do not really have a training camp."
He and other sailors were transported to Hawaii on board a converted ocean liners and civilian were busy painting a battleship gray body, hanging chairs on the side during the crossing.
Once there, he said they were in alphabetical order on board different ships, and when the "T" were called, took Mike Trovato to Kaneohe Naval Air Station assigned. "I wanted to fight on a ship," he said.
A tumor in his neck sent him to hospital where he lay in bed at Pearl Harbor, surrounded by sailors injured in the wreck of the USS Yorktown at the Battle of Midway. Trovato said he released in Oakland for surgery and for medical reasons, sent without seeing action.
the Purple Heart, WWII Victory, the Pacific and the U.S. Campaign-defense - a message of condolence from President Franklin D. Roosevelt and other souvenirs of his stay has made pictures of his older brother, his medals.
John Hazdovac, 51, of Monterey, named after his uncle was killed at Pearl Harbor, and inherited his medals and letters of Arizona.
"I read the letters to an idea of what to get for a guy he is," said Hazdovac. "He loved sport, in the sun of Hawaii.
"His last letter home to his mother told him not to worry about it was the largest battleship in the largest fleet in the world."
Trovato has visited the Arizona Memorial in 1998 and Hazdovac with his father in 2000. Both were in the cozy atmosphere, the long list of names of the dead posted on a blackboard.
"It was two of the most emotional days of my life," said Hazdovac. "I. melted collapsed. Oil was still to come, the" tears "of Arizona. My father told me what Jack Hazdovac name, "You are named after this guy. My big brother."
Kevin Howe can be reached at 646-4416 or khowe@montereyherald.com.
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