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Remembering Pearl Harbor and USS Arizona

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The historic image of the USS Arizona after receiving a bomb that reached lower decks, igniting fuel compartments and powder magazines.

NOTE: This is a re-publication of a piece I originally placed on this website Dec.7, 2013. There are now only 5 survivors from the Arizona still living.

The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941. The attack on Pearl Harbor and other military bases located on Oahu, one of Hawaiian islands, led to the United States’ entry into World War II. It turned a nation of people whose majority favored a policy of isolationism before the sneak attack, into a global military superpower by the war’s end. Continue reading