Fountain Hills veterans paused Friday morning to remember Dec. 7, 1941, “a day that shall live in infamy.”
It was the day that Japan attacked the U.S. Naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii entering the United States in World War II.
The attack resulted in the death of more than 2,400 people including civilians and more than 1,700 aboard the U.S.S. Arizona that was sunk to the bottom of the harbor.
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Fountain Hills veterans paused Friday morning to remember Dec. 7, 1941, “a day that shall live in infamy.”
It was the day that Japan attacked the U.S. Naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii entering the United States in World War II.
The attack resulted in the death of more than 2,400 people including civilians and more than 1,700 aboard the U.S.S. Arizona that was sunk to the bottom of the harbor.
VFW Post 7507 Commander Ron Smith, American Legion Post Commander Post 58 Commander John Weedo and Sr. Vice Commandant, Marine Corps League Det. 1439 David Nelson, rotated in presenting the story of Pearl Harbor from different perspectives of those who were present and under attack; a nurse at a hospital, a sailor aboard one of the ships, a soldier stationed at an Army base.
Smith also recounted that with the passing of former President George H.W. Bush that he was in prep school when Pearl Harbor was attacked and signed on for pilot training after graduation. Just prior to his 19th birthday, Bush was commissioned as the youngest pilot in the Air Corp.
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