Key Highlights
- "Everything seemed to lean toward that being in the cards sooner rather than later," the 103-year-old told WANF-TV this week, days ahead of the anniversary of the 1941 attack.
- "So not much of a decision to be made."Schubring ended his guard duty on the morning of Dec.
- 7, 1941, then went to eat.
- "I went to eat breakfast after my duty and shortly before 8 a. m., an explosion shook our bunkers," he said at a Veterans Day ceremony at the National WWII Museum this year, according to Spirit America.
- "Everyone rushed outside." AMERICA'S LAST SURVIVING WWII ACE NAVY FIGHTER PILOT DONALD MCPHERSON DIES AT 103 YEARS OLD The USS Arizona burns during the bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941.

