Submarine veteran Max Schell offers Pearl Harbor history at memorial ceremony. Courtesy photo

SACRAMENTO REGION, CA (MPG) - Sunday, Dec. 7 is the 84th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. For the past 38 years the greater Sacramento area United States Navy Submarine Veterans have honored that date with a memorial and wreath-laying ceremony at Discovery Park.

This ceremony was originally started by the Submarine Veterans of WW II, Sacramento Base 35 years ago and has been carried forward every year to date by the Gold Country Base of the United States Submarine Veterans. (USSVI) 

“It is our goal to keep the memory of December 7, 1941, alive and to honor the heroism, dedication, and painful sacrifice of our service men and women on that fateful day”.  

“To Never Forget.” 

The ceremony is open to the General Public.

Beginning at 9 a.m. the program will commence with the presentation of the colors followed by a guest speaker and a narration of the history of the attack. At 9:55am PST (7:55am HST) a wreath will be placed in the water at the confluence of the Sacramento and American Rivers from the stern of a Yolo County Sheriff Marine Patrol Boat, assisting them will be Marine Patrol Divisions of the Sacramento County Sheriff Department, Cities of Sacramento and West Sacramento and the US Coast Guard Auxiliary. The ceremony will conclude with a “Rifle Salute”, the playing of “Taps” followed by the bagpipe rendition of “Amazing Grace.”

The ceremony begins at 9 a.m. in Discovery Park, rain or shine.