“On Dec. 7, 1941, Japan launched a surprise attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The assault killed or wounded more than 3,500 American troops and civilians; severely damaged the fleet; and shocked the nation.”
My father wanted to serve when this happened in 1941. The services wouldn’t accept him because he broke his left arm in several places falling off a horse when he was 3 and that arm wasn’t set correctly, resulting in that arm being much shorter than the right and his hand unusable. He never got over not being able to ‘do his duty,’ when his country needed him. He was quite a man, though, and my personal hero.
We honor those who died in Pearl Harbor that day and their families.
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