Pearl Harbor ceremony marred by snafu

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Pearl Harbor attendants commemorated those lost 70 years ago in a moment of silence but things went wrong at the last minute. 

Each year, the tradition calls for a moment of silence to start with the sounding of a ship’s whistle. The quiet is then broken when military aircraft fly over the USS Arizona Memorial in missing-man formation.

The F-22’s roared overhead right on time, but the moment of silence was held five minutes late. …

— Christian Science Monitor

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