“They call a lot of us heroes, and I’ve always said we are not the heroes,” Conter said last year. “Heroes are the ones right there that day that lost their lives. They gave everything up.”
Last survivor of Japanese attack on USS Arizona in Pearl Harbor, Lou Conter, dies at 102

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