Today, Sunday, December 7th, 2025, marks the 84th anniversary of the attack on the United States by the Empire of Japan at Pearl Harbor. It is, as President Franklin Roosevelt so memorably thundered, a day that will live in infamy. It should be remembered as such, even though modern Japan is probably the best ally the United States has in the North Pacific.
Remembering that day, though, well, that’s the rub. There are now only 12 veterans of that day still alive as of this writing, all over 100 years old. None of them was able to make the trip to Pearl Harbor to mark the occasion this year.
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Utterly as forgotten as 9/11. All part of the communists plan.
My mother was one week away from her twelfth birthday when Pearl Harbor was bombed. Her next-door neighbors lost their son, Jack H. Stevens, when he went down with the USS Arizona. My mother never forgot about their sacrifice.
RIP all who served.
I lived in Fairbanks AK from 04 to 07. A good friends father died in 06, a Pearl Harbour survivor. I was able to obtain for his daughter a flag flown over the Arizona and built a shadow box for the flag out of curly maple.
The sad thing is anyone born in the last 30-40 years likely knows nothing about Pearl Harbor. The teachers union planned it that way.
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I have personal connection to Everett Hyland, one of the survivors. He passed in July of 2019. I have pictures and videos of a Bell Ringing ceremony at the Pearl Harbor visitors center almost 20 years ago. I lived about a quarter mile as the crow flies across the harbor to the other side of Ford Island. Lot’s of pics. True story.