Medal of Freedom

Natural Resources Canada Laboratory to help produce Pearl Harbor Medal of Freedom

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HAMILTON, ON, Dec. 7, 2021 /CNW/ - Natural Resources Canada's CanmetMATERIALS laboratory in Hamilton will produce an important part of the new USS Arizona Medal of Freedom to honour the officers and crewmen who lost their lives when the USS Arizona was bombed during the attack on Pearl Harbor.

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  • HAMILTON, ON, Dec. 7, 2021 /CNW/ - Natural Resources Canada's CanmetMATERIALS laboratory in Hamilton will produce an important part of the new USS Arizona Medal of Freedom to honour the officers and crewmen who lost their lives when the USS Arizona was bombed during the attack on Pearl Harbor.
  • In 2015, he established the Lauren F. Bruner USSArizonaMemorial Foundation to preserve the history and memory of theArizona's crew.
  • As part of this legacy, his plans included establishing a USS Arizona Medal of Freedom, using actual steel that he and other survivors received from the wreck of Arizona from Navy commands at Pearl Harbor.
  • "Natural Resources Canada is pleased to play a role in the production of the USS Arizona Medal of Freedom, to help preserve the memory of those who lost their lives on December 7, 1941, including fellow Canadians."