Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer to lay wreath at Pearl Harbor for 2nd time

Dec 5, 2014, 7:23 AM | Updated: 7:24 am

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PHOENIX — Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer will make her second
straight visit to Hawaii to mark the anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Last year Brewer became the first Arizona governor to lay a wreath at the USS Arizona Memorial and she’ll be doing that again Sunday. Admiral Phillip Sawyer, a Phoenix native, made the request.

“Very moving, very moving. Such an honor for me to be able to be with the admiral on Pearl Harbor day to memorialize all those people,” Brewer said.

The outgoing governor said she can visualize that Dec. 7, 1941 at the memorial site.

“The oil is still leaking from the USS Arizona. You can visualize the bombers coming in, people leaving their quarters, people swimming ashore, fire on the water. What a sacrifice they made for all of us,” she aid.

She tweeted from last year’s visit:

May God bless the 1,777 sailors of the USS Arizona who lost their lives in the unprovoked attack on Pearl Harbor 72 years ago today.

— Jan Brewer (@GovBrewer) December 7, 2013

The trip to Pearl Harbor is one of her final duties before she leaves office in early January.

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This Nov. 21, 2014 photo shows visitors looking at a glass exhibit case that has been empty for a year inside a museum at the visitors' center for the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The USS Arizona is one of the nation's most hallowed sites, an underwater grave for more than 900 sailors and Marines killed when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and sank their ship in 1941, but it's now the scene of alleged rampant mismanagement. (AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy)

This Nov. 21, 2014 photo shows visitors looking at a wall inscribed with the names of the USS Arizona's fallen at a memorial for the sunken battleship in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The USS Arizona is one of the nation's most hallowed sites, an underwater grave for more than 900 sailors and Marines killed when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and sank their ship in 1941, but it's now the scene of alleged rampant mismanagement. (AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy)

This Nov. 21, 2014 photo shows visitors looking out at the sunken USS Arizona from a memorial atop the rusting battleship in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The USS Arizona is one of the nation's most hallowed sites, an underwater grave for more than 900 sailors and Marines killed when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and sank their ship in 1941, but it's now the scene of alleged rampant mismanagement. (AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy)

USS Arizona survivors from left, John Anderson, Don Stratton, Louis Conter and Lauren Bruner arrive Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014, in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Four of the remaining nine USS Arizona survivors of the Pearl Harbor attack are vowing this year's anniversary of the 1941 attack won't be their last reunion. Even though it's the last official survivor gathering of the USS Arizona Reunion Association, the men say they still plan to get together, even if not in Hawaii. Sunday marks the 73rd anniversary of the Japanese attack that killed roughly 2,400 sailors, Marines and soldiers. (AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy)

USS Arizona survivor Donald Stratton, 92, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, speaks at a news conference in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014. Four of the remaining nine USS Arizona survivors of the Pearl Harbor attack are vowing this year's anniversary won't be their last reunion. (AP Photo/Jennifer Sinco Kelleher)

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