Some 100 survivors of the attack on Pearl Harbor will gather in Hawaii today 70 years after the day which drew the US into World War II. The Japanese air and naval strike on the American military base claimed nearly 2,400 hundred lives, destroyed over 160 aircraft and beached, damaged or destroyed over 20 ships. President Franklin D. called it ” a date which will live in infamy” when he addressed the Congress the next day asking to declare war with Japan. — Lloyd Young (35 photos total)
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I am married to a veteran of the US NAvy and the second world war. I am proud of him and he is 84 plus years old. My brother is another Navy veteran of the same age. We have so few of these veterans of the Second World War left,so take time and appreciate them. So many gave up their lives so that we could have ours. If you didnt live back then, it was a very different time for everyone. We had rationing, blackouts and so many losses of loved ones and friends. It is very hard to imagine this nation, at this time, following rationing of anything as we have so many THINGS.