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Bob Fernandez, a 100-year-old survivor of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, died shortly after deteriorating health prompted him to skip a trip to Hawaii to attend last week’s remembrance ceremony marking the 83rd anniversary of the attack.

Fernandez died peacefully at the Lodi, California, home of his nephew, Joe Guthrie, on Wednesday. Guthrie’s daughter, Halie Torrrell, was holding his hand when he took his last breath. Fernandez had suffered a stroke about a month ago that caused him to slow down, but Guthrie said doctors attributed his condition to age.

“It was his time,” Guthrie said.

Fernandez was a 17-year-old sailor on board the USS Curtiss during the 7 December 1941 attack that propelled the US into the second world war. A mess cook, he was waiting tables and bringing sailors morning coffee and food when they heard an alarm sound. Through a porthole, Fernandez saw a plane fly by with the red ball insignia known to be painted on Japanese aircraft.

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A former US army battalion commander was found guilty on Friday of sexual harassment of a subordinate in what prosecutors hailed as a historic military justice case.

Lt Col Herman West, who was previously stationed at Washington state’s Joint Base Lewis-McChord (JBLM), faced multiple charges over his treatment of a female officer in his command, KOMO News reported.

The subordinate officer, whose name has not been publicly released, testified in a JBLM courtroom that West had harassed her for weeks starting in the summer of 2023.

West’s actions included barging into the women’s bathrooms, making unwanted sexual remarks and repeatedly touching her inappropriately during military outings, KOMO News reported. West also made persistent sexual advances, including telling the woman that he was excited to go on a mission to Indonesia with her so the two could share a hotel room and “get super drunk” and “totally unhinged”.

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He had no living family.

He was not famous.

He lived alone.

Yet on Tuesday, hundreds of people gathered at the graveside of World War II veteran Stephen Kolesnik Jr. and watched him laid to rest.

"When you're a veteran you've got family," a funeral speaker is captured on video saying during the service at New Hampshire State Veterans Cemetery in Boscawen, a town 10 miles northwest of Concord, the state's capital. "He was afraid he would died alone... and look what has happened."

More than a dozen drones followed a 47-foot Coast Guard boat Sunday night, while law enforcement tracked another 50 drones coming onto land from the ocean at Island Beach State Park, Rep. Chris Smith said.

Meanwhile, an FBI assistant director admitted that the agency doesn’t know who is behind the unidentified drones that are flying over New Jersey.

Authorities did confirm that the drones are not coming from local military bases.

The mystery of the unidentified drones deepened Tuesday, as federal officials admitted during a congressional hearing that despite repeated assurances from Gov. Murphy and other public officials, they can’t say definitively whether the drones pose a threat.

Three U.S. Army soldiers stationed in Texas have been charged in an alleged human smuggling operation involving noncitizens from Mexico and Guatemala, federal officials said.

According to a Justice Department news release, Emilio Mendoza Lopez, Angel Palma and Enrique Jauregui are all U.S. soldiers stationed at Fort Cavazos near Killeen, Texas, about 70 miles north of Austin.

All three soldiers have been charged with one count of bringing in and harboring aliens, while Palma and Jauregui face an additional charge of assaulting a federal agent, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.

"We are aware of the arrest of three Fort Cavazos Soldiers. III Armored Corps will continue to cooperate with all federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies," a spokesperson for Fort Cavazos told USA TODAY in a statement on Wednesday.

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