Generally Speaking: Week of December 6
Remember Pearl Harbor on December 7
Friday, December 7, is the 71st anniversary of the sneak attack by the Imperial Japanese Navy on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii in 1941. Thirty five hundred Americans were killed or wounded on the day, described by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Aboard the Battleship USS Arizona — which was constructed and launched from the Brooklyn Navy Yard — were 1,177 sailors when the ship was bombed. At the site where the ship was sunk, a concrete and marble monument with a large flagpole has been built over the vessel which still contains the remains of the seamen and officers who lost their lives. Additionally, there were 335 wounded survivors.