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Aurora native Dr. du Preez shares Navy, personal life
Musician 3rd Class Anton du Preez gets a group hug from the women of the Kingdom of Tonga as part of his 2011 Pacific Partnership tour. The Pacific Partnership is multinational tour that prepares Pacific-bordering nations for national disasters and provides medical assistance since 2004.
Musician 3rd Class Anton du Preez (left) and musician 2nd class Steven Freeman perform for a crowd in Ambon, Indonesia, as part of the Pacific Partnership in 2010. Du Preez indicated that the crowds reached into 10-20,000 range and described it as one of the “coolest” moments of his service.
Dec. 7 is National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, a day that lives in infamy, when the Japanese Empire attacked the U.S. Navy at its Hawaiian naval base.
In that moment, more than 2,000 U.S. personnel died, with ships to this day lying broken in the harbor, memorials dedicated to a day when America did not feel safe even with the vastness of two oceans to protect her from war....
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