«Breaking News» Pearl Harbor survivors gather in Hawaii to commemorate lives lost in attack 77 years ago

About 20 survivors have gathered at Pearl Harbor to pay tribute to the thousands of men lost in the Japanese attack 77 years ago.

The youngest of the veterans to gather for the ceremony on Friday in Hawaii are in their mid-90s. The Navy and National Park Service jointly hosted the remembrance ceremony at a grassy site overlooking the water and the USS Arizona Memorial.

Attendees observed a moment of silence at 7.55am, the time the attack began on December 7, 1941. 

Hawaii Air National Guard F-22 jets flew overhead in 'missing man formation' to break the silence.

Everett Hyland, seated, who survived the attack on Pearl Harbor as a crew member of the USS Pennsylvania, salutes along with his granddaughter, Navy Cmdr. Anna-Marie Fine on Friday as the USS Michael Murphy passes in Pearl Harbor

Pearl Harbor survivors salute during the National Anthem at a ceremony in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on Friday

Tom Berg, left, of Port Townsend, Wash., Robert Fernandez, center, of Stockton, Calif., and George Keene of Newhall, Calif., all survivors of the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, take part in the 77th anniversary ceremony on Friday

U.S. Indo-Pacific Command Commander Adm. Phil Davidson told those gathered the nation can never forget the heavy price paid with 21 vessels damaged or sunk, 170 planes destroyed and more than 2,400 killed including servicemen and civilians. 

He says these losses did not break the American spirit but charged it. 

For the first time, no survivor from the USS Arizona attended the ceremony as none of the five surviving men were able to make the trip to Hawaii. 

The Arizona sank after two bombs hit the ship, triggering tremendous explosions. 

The Arizona lost 1,177 sailors and Marines, the greatest number of casualties from any ship. Most remain entombed in the sunken hull of the battleship at the bottom of the harbor.

Smoke rises from the battleship USS Arizona as it sinks during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, on December 7, 1941

Altogether, the Pearl Harbor attack killed nearly 2,400 U.S. servicemen.

Survivor John Mathrursse attended the ceremony on Friday from Mountain View, California. He was an 18-year-old seaman second class walking out of the chow hall on Ford Island to see a friend on the USS West Virginia when the bombing began.

He says bombs and shells were going off in the water and men were getting hurt. He says he helped the ones who were too injured to swim. He carried them to the mess hall and set them on mattresses that people grabbed from the barracks above.

Also attending was Robert Fernandez, now 94-years old. He says he returns to Pearl Harbor for the anniversary because he's now all alone after his wife died four years ago.

The destroyer USS Shaw explodes after being hit by bombs during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941

Sailors stand among wrecked airplanes at Ford Island Naval Air Station as they watch the explosion of the USS Shaw

Dozens of those killed have been recently identified and reburied in cemeteries across the country after the military launched a new effort to analyze bones and DNA of hundreds long classified as 'unknowns.'

This led to the 2015 exhumation of 388 sets of remains from the USS Oklahoma buried in a national cemetery in Honolulu. The Oklahoma had the second highest number of dead after the Arizona at 429, though only 35 were identified in the immediate years after the attack.

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency has identified 168 sailors and Marines from the Oklahoma since the exhumations three years ago. It has said it expects to identify about 80 percent of the 388 by 2020.

Several families were scheduled to rebury their newly identified loved ones on Friday, including Navy Seaman 1st Class William Bruesewitz of Appleton, Wisconsin.

He's expected to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, D.C.

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Main photo article About 20 survivors have gathered at Pearl Harbor to pay tribute to the thousands of men lost in the Japanese attack 77 years ago.
The youngest of the veterans to gather for the ceremony on Friday in Hawaii are in their mid-90s. The Navy and National Park Service jointly hosted the remembrance...

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