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Valley vets honor anniversary of day ‘that will live in infamy.’
Posted On Dec 13 2015
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“We’re trying to pay homage to those heroes the 2,400 that we lost that day, ‘ said Senior Master Sergeant David Evans”.
Governor Dannel P. Malloy has directing US and state flags in CT to remain at half-staff on Monday, Dec. 7, in recognition of Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.
Nicholson has written a book called “Pearl Harbor Child”. Sanford Veterans of Foreign Wars past post commander Joe Garand, who was stationed in France during the Korean War and then went on to complete three tours of duty in Vietnam, laid a wreath in the calm waters of the pond.
US Navy officials said about two dozen veterans who were on the island of Oahu the morning of the attack were well enough to attend commemoration ceremonies on Monday.
Army veteran Dale Robinson, 93, remembers the attack on Pearl Harbor vividly.
When the Japanese attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt dubbed it the “day which will live in infamy”.
“I woke up today and said, ‘Bert, today’s the day, ‘” said Davis, who still carries some of her husband’s remains in a locket around her neck.
In Hawaii, the USS Arizona Memorial commemorates the attack, and the Battleship Missouri symbolizes the end of WWII.
In 1970, former Gov. Arch Moore honored the West Virginia survivors with special Pearl Harbor licence plates. “When I first realized these planes were diving, they had their canopies open”. The USS Pennsylvania was badly damaged during the attack. Hawaii Air National Guard F-22s would fly overhead to break the moment of silence.
The benefit concert, held at Bloch Arena at Pearl Harbor, raised more than ,000.
Mr Irwin said: ‘It brings back some lousy memories.’ But the 91-year-old comes to the annual ceremony because the attack was a ‘big thing in my life’.
“I grew up where I had bomb shelters on my playground and invasion money in my pocket”, she said. His family waited to have his ashes placed inside the USS Arizona. We don’t know what they would’ve become.
