Generally Speaking: Remembering Pearl Harbor on December 7
This coming Monday, December 7, is National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. This year marks the 74th anniversary of the horrific sneak attack by the Japanese Navy bombing America‘s Pacific fleet based at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt referred to it as “A date which will live in infamy.” A total of 2,403 Americans were killed and 1,178 were wounded.
Among the commemorative programs will be a remembrance ceremony near the end of the American Veterans Memorial Pier (69th Street Pier) at the foot of Bay Ridge Avenue, at 11 a.m., by the Kings County Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW).