70th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor

December 7, 2011 marks the 70th Anniversary of the attack on the US Naval Base at Pearl Harbor on Oahu, Hawaii by the Imperial Japanese Navy . The day after the assault, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan; Congress approved his declaration with just one dissenting vote. Three days later, Japanese allies Germany and Italy also declared war on the United States, and again Congress reciprocated. More than two years into the conflict, America had finally joined World War II.


Each year there is a commemoration of the anniversary at the U.S.S. Arizona Memorial.  The youngest of the survivors are approaching age 90.  Those that are able, return at this time to pay respects to their comrades who perished there.

U.S.S. Arizona Memorial

The 184-foot-long gleaming white structure was built to honor the 2,390 people who died December 7, 1941 during Japan’s infamous attack on Pearl Harbor, including 1,177 heroes still entombed in the Arizona.  The original memorial was a flagpole attached to the broken main mast of the ship with a commemorative plaque. This tribute was ordered erected in 1950 by Admiral Arthur Radford, then-Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet. In 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower approved the design for the present structure, which was completed in 1961 and dedicated a year later. There are three main sections of the memorial: the entry and assembly room; a central area designed for ceremonies and general observation; and the shrine room, where the names of those killed on the Arizona are engraved on a marble wall.

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