President Asks For Flags At Half-Staff In Remembrance Of Pearl Harbor

At least that’s the condensed version that most people are reminded of each year.

Survivors of the attack have the option to join their lost comrades and make Pearl Harbor their final resting place.

Flags in CT will remain at half-staff on Monday in recognition of Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. Many consider the attack the start of World War II for America.

In addition to his personal experiences, Cunningham delved into the subject of Japanese history leading up to Pearl Harbor. Less remembered in many instances is that Japan also attacked Malaya, Hong Kong, Guam, the Philippine Islands, Wake Island and Midway Island, as well as ships between Honolulu and the U.S. West Coast.

“I’d just come out of church, it was about 11:30”.

The Zia Chapter of the Sons and Daughters of Pearl Harbor Survivors Association is sponsoring a Pearl Harbor memorial at 3 p.m. today at the New Mexico Veterans’ Memorial, 1100 Louisiana SE.

A GoFundMe account raised more than $4,000 for John Seelie, a Pearl Harbor veteran.

“Ships were burning, the Arizona was still burning, and Oklahoma was still upside down”, Lehner recalled.

On that grotesque day, 2,345 Americans were killed, much of the Pacific Fleet was crippled and almost all of the US airpower in the region was destroyed. He would spend the next 24 hours in a dark, smoke filled compartment below deck, loading ammunition on the hoists and preparing for the next wave of Japanese planes.

The remains of numerous 1,177 USA military personnel who died aboard the Arizona are still inside the submerged wreck. When President Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke to Congress on December 8 – a seven-minute speech that was heard by an estimated 81 percent of the USA public who had access to radios – only one US representative voted against declaring war on Japan. Three hundred and fifty three Japanese aircraft dropped bombs and strafed with machine gun fire, 100 U.S. Navy ships and the surrounding Army Air Corps and Marine airfield at Pearl Harbor. “It was bad. And I’ll never forget that stuff”.

“The families of the Pearl Harbor Survivors will be remembered”, Denison said.

The harbor wasn’t the only target during the attack. “They raise the possibility that our ability to recognize future threats may be far weaker than we had hoped”.

The attack on Pearl Harbor and the war that followed also needed to be remembered by this generation and young people, he said.