NORTH MANKATO — American Legion Post 518 will fly a flag in December in honor of local residents who were stationed at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. At 10 a.m. Dec. 6, members will gather at the post ...
Once the flag was hoisted to the top of the flagpole, it was then lowered to half-staff in honor of all those who have died in service to our country — especially those who died Dec. 7, 1941, when the ...
Editor's note: The American public still didn't know the extent of the losses at Pearl Harbor or throughout the Pacific when President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed a war message to Congress on Dec.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt was not exaggerating when he called the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor “a date which will live in infamy.” Dec. 7 has become synonymous with his stirring words used to ...
SEE OUT OF THIS NEXT SYSTEM COMING UP. TODAY MARKS 83 YEARS SINCE THE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR ON DECEMBER 7TH, 1941, OVER 2400 AMERICANS DIED AFTER JAPANESE FORCES ATTACKED THE U.S. NAVAL BASE IN ...
On Sunday, Dec. 7, friends and families will gather to honor those who survived, and pay tribute to those whose lives were ended, during the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt called Dec. 7, 1941, “a date that will live in infamy,” when more than 3,400 people were killed or injured after Japan launched a surprise attack on the U.S. Pacific ...
Vaughn P. Drake Jr., a Kentuckian believed to be the oldest survivor of the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor, has died at the age of 106, according to his family. Drake passed away on April 7 in ...
NEW YORK - This Saturday marks the 83rd anniversary of Pearl Harbor, as the nation honors the victims and survivors of the ...
As a young boy, I remember hearing over the radio of the attack on Pearl Harbor at that very hour, Sunday afternoon, Dec. 7, 1941. “A date that will live in infamy,” FDR told the nation the very next ...
*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. In this June 6, 2013 photo provided by the USS Arizona Memorial Foundation, Lauren Bruner, one of five remaining survivors of the ...