Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day — Dec. 7 each year — honors the ... the governor encourages them to do so. Graphics: Facts about the attack on Pearl Harbor Half-mast is used when the flag is ...
But this was the most touching letter I received. “On Christmas Eve day, 1953, my Navy destroyer entered Pearl Harbor, and, as we passed the wreckage site of the Arizona, an announcement came ...
Roosevelt spoke to a joint session of Congress, calling Dec. 7 “a day that will live in infamy.” In 1994, U.S. Congress designated Dec. 7 as National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. Memorial ...
Several ceremonies are taking place across the country in remembrance of the day, including at the Pearl Harbor National Memorial in Honolulu, Hawaii. Two survivors of the bombing — each 100 ...
the Manchester Veterans Council will conduct an 82nd anniversary observance in memory of those lost in the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor.
It killed 2,390 Americans, and the United States declared war on Japan the next day. “The ranks of Pearl Harbor survivors grow thinner with each passing year. But the memory of their heroism-and ...