For the first time, no Pearl Harbor survivors attended the remembrance, as one of the last, Leo Allard, died at 103 in November 2025.

SEATTLE — Leo George Allard, a Navy first gunner’s mate who survived the attack on Pearl Harbor and later became a familiar face at Pacific Northwest veterans’ events, died Nov. 7, 2025. He was 103.

His death comes as the number of living survivors of the 1941 attack dwindles to roughly a dozen, all over the age of 100.

This year’s remembrance marked the first time that no survivor was present at the ceremony, a stark reminder of the nation’s accelerating loss of firsthand witnesses to one of its defining historical moments.

Allard served aboard the USS Reid when Japanese forces struck Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. The assault killed more than 2,300 American service members and civilians and propelled the United States into World War II.

He later spent nine years in the Navy, a period