Governor Walker issues statement in remembrance of attack on Pearl Harbor

Lt. Governor Nancy Wyman said, “Today we remember the thousands of soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines who fell at Pearl Harbor, and honor all of the veterans who fought”.

Tatsunobu Isoda, the Mayor of Nagaoka, Japan, will lay flowers at the main memorial event on Wednesday and join a smaller ceremony a day later co-organized by Japan and the USA for the first time. His children say his wish was for his remains to be interred with his brother Jake and the other crewmen who lost their lives that day at Pearl Harbor.

Harris told the crowd that the servicemen attacked at Pearl Harbor “engaged the enemy as best they could”, and there is sorrow for those who died. It comes at a steep cost, one that is paid by our courageous men and women in uniform. A ceremony at the Lincoln County Courthouse at 11 a.m. today will commemorate the Pearl Harbor attack, and local World War II veterans will be in attendance. They are often far away from their homes and families, sometimes even putting themselves in harm’s way in order to protect our ideals and freedoms.

The Japanese Empire was dismantled and replaced with a constitutional government following World War II’s conclusion – precipitated by the United States’ nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagazaki.

Hundreds filled the ballroom at Hilton Hawaiian Village in Waikiki Tuesday night to honor Pearl Harbor survivors ahead of Wednesday’s 75th commemoration ceremony.

PBS debuted “Pearl Harbor: Into the Arizona”, an inside look at the battleship’s underwater remains, in late-November; it will air again this month, so check local listings for dates and time.

Almost 1,200 more died on the USS Arizona, where 96-year-old Lauren Bruner from California was serving.

But did you know that the Japanese also tried to attack us by submarine? But the War Department had come calling even before December 7, 1941. The unprovoked attack led directly to America’s entry into the biggest and most costly war in history.

We thank them for their service, their undying love of country and everything they did to make America great.

On Wednesday, the mayor of his hometown is joining his Honolulu counterpart to mark the Pearl Harbor anniversary – as friends.

“I remember my dad talking a lot about that when it happened, when he found out, when he went to the Navy and Great Lakes and eventually went to Europe and eventually went to Okinawa”.

“We thought everybody had that type of a story”, he said.