2024-12-07

National Pearl Harbor Day 2024

    Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
Yesterday, December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Address to joint session of the US Congress on December 8
This day commemoriates the Sunday morning December 7, 1941 attack of the Pearl Harbor Naval Station by the Imperial Japanese Navy. The Japanese had been attacking everyone around them in the name of domination but this particular transgression of peacetime decorum became their downfall.

The attack on Pearl Harbor killed 2,403 US personnel, including sailors, soldiers and civilians. Another 1,178 people were wounded. 129 Japanese soldiers were killed. Half of the dead at Pearl Harbor were on the USS Arizona. Today the sunken battleship serves as a memorial to all Americans who died in the attack.

My beloved biological father was interred at Clinton United Methodist Church in Salley, South Carolina on December 7 at 5 p.m. with full military honors because his passing was an equally devastating event for our family.

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