Editor’s note
Each Sunday, The Dispatch features a front page from this week in history to celebrate the newspaper’s 150 years of publication, with a little update on what’s happened since.
wearing a ball cap with “Pearl Harbor Survivor” stitched across the front panel.
He told a Dispatch reporter that he wore the cap because he wanted people to remember the horror and sacrifice of that day.
Mapou died in 2019 at age 97. He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.