Alpena VFW Honors Memory of Pearl Harbor

The Japanese air and naval assault on December 7, 1941, a date that U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt said “will live in infamy”, took 2,390 American lives.

The remains of numerous 1,177 USA military personnel who died aboard the Arizona are still inside the submerged wreck. The ceremony also served to welcome the newest addition to the museum, the ex-US Navy tugboat Hoga.

After the wreath-laying ceremony, Ducey went to the room in the memorial where the names of those killed in the ship are engraved in stone.

“You could see the torpedo on top of the water”, he said.

“As you can imagine, growing up I listened to my dad’s stories of duty, honor and courage”, he said.

Even though Reverend Jackson Daniel Clark was not at Pearl Harbor the day it was attacked, it prompted the United States to enter World War II.

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii – A few dozen elderly men who survived the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor 74 years ago gathered Monday at the site to remember fellow servicemen who didn’t make it.

News4’s Tom Sherwood talked to a veteran at a Pearl Harbor ceremony who called on Americans to stop being divided by religion. It come down and I believe it tried to hit the hospital to kill us, as many as they could, but when he crashed, he missed the top of the hospital and crashed into an empty house. “I can say God bless them for what they have done”, Raffety said.

“As we commemorate this day, let us re-dedicate ourselves to delivering to future generations the same gift of security and peace that was purchased for us by those who sacrificed so much in defense of our freedom seven decades ago”, Harris said. “It was one of the most unbelievable things in my life”. “So as long as we’re able to, we’re going to get the word out”, Jones Barry said.

The event was held on a Navy pier overlooking the USS Arizona Memorial. Me and two of my buddies run around and it cut him in two right at the bottom of his ribs.