Pearl Harbor survivor’s legacy is shared by daughter through letters

An Arizona woman has been living her life fulfilling the promise to her dad, never letting people forget Pearl Harbor. Carol Reiley, daughter of Pearl Harbor survivor John Birmingham, who was aboard the USS Vestal at the time of the attack, continues to share her father’s story of watching the bombs rain down.

Carol wants to uphold a promise she made to her father the night before he died, to never let people forget about Pearl Harbor. She has the original note and envelope that her father wrote to her grandma the day after the bombing, which is postmarked for Dec. 9, 1941 – a treasure she will never forget.

Carol Reiley, daughter of a Pearl Harbor survivor, joined “Arizona Horizon” to talk more about her father’s story.