The Washington City Council passed a resolution this week to honor those killed on the USS Utah in the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
. His medal was returned to the Navy when no living relatives could be found. In 1947, Gov. Herbert B. Maw made Tomich an honorary resident of Utah and the medal was given to the state as the official guardian of the man called a hero. The presentation was made with full military honors in the rotunda of the Utah Capitol.
Many of the sailors who escaped heard a knocking from the sunken hull of the ship and some returned to knock back.
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