Geno Morosi is, together with his brother, Albert, among the last living sets of brothers to serve in the United States Navy and survive the attack on Pearl Harbor aboard the same ship. FOX News aired a story about the brothers in its coverage of the 69th anniversary of the attack in 2010. The Morosi brothers were aboard the USS Maryland, moored along Battleship Row, on the morning of December 7, 1941. Geno was watching other sailors play a card game when the Japanese attack began. Geno was initially assigned to a gun that did not have antiaircraft capabilities, so he was ordered to man a different gun on a higher deck. Geno was 21 at the time; Albert was 19. Geno Morosi received a Purple Heart for hearing loss sustained during the attack on Pearl Harbor. In December 2013, it was estimated that only 2,000 to 2,500 Pearl Harbor survivors were still alive. Born in Royalton, Illinois, to immigrants from the Province of Perugia, Umbria, Italy, Geno and Albert also had an older brother, August, who served in the European theater as a member of the United States Army. August died in 2008 in Springfield, Illinois.