Veterans come together in Bangor to remember Pearl Harbor attack

BANGOR, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- City leaders and veterans gathered at a walkover bridge overlooking the Kenduskeag Stream in downtown Bangor Monday to pay their annual honor to those Americans who died in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. 

Sixty-eight years ago more than 2,000 American service men and women lost their lives when Japan attacked U.S. forces stationed on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. Veterans and active military alike watched as a small wreath was dropped into the Kenduskeag to honor the fallen.

City leaders also unveiled a temporary plaque to recognize the one Bangor native who lost his life that day. Willard Carleton Orr was a private first class in the U.S. Army Air Forces.

The city says it plans to have a permanent bronze plaque placed at the walkway in his remembrance sometime in the coming year.