Pearl Harbor Day is a solemn event recalling the catastrophic Japanese assault that plunged the United States of America into all-out global war. On Dec. 7, 2010, Pearl Harbor day commemorations contain the unveiling of a $56 million Pearl Harbor visitor center designed to educate tourists about the realities of the attack. The military personnel who bore the brunt of the Japanese attack that day will be represented by a small band of aging warriors who endure in 2010.
The Pearl Harbor attack data
Pearl Harbor Day 2010 is the 69th observance of December 7, 1941, as the “day which will live in infamy.”. President Franklin D. Roosevelt coined that phrase a day after the assault in a speech asking Congress to declare war on Japan. About 2,402 United States military personnel were killed in the Japanese assault on Pearl Harbor which was a huge surprise. Pearl Harbor Day shocked the nation much like the 9/11 terrorist attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center and killed 2,752 people 60 years afterwards. Japan did not succeed very well in its attack on Pearl Harbor which was meant to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from interfering with Southeast Asia and the Philippines ambitions.
The meaning of Pearl Harbor Day
In order to recognize all those killed in the assault on Pearl Harbor Day, the president ordered all Americans to fly the U.S. flag at home while having all government buildings flying it at half mast. Dec. 7 as Pearl Harbor Day isn't really a federal holiday. However, it is essential for many who were in Pearl Harbor or World War II to remember those who passed away in Pearl Harbor and other battles too. At the U.S. Navy base at Pearl Harbor on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, the 69th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor assault started on Sunday and runs through Wednesday.
Pearl Harbor Day this year also
On Pearl Harbor 2010, the new Pearl Harbor visitor center can be dedicated. Galleries, interactive exhibits, two film theaters, an amphitheater and an education center will all be a part of the new facility. The commemorations will contain very handful of Pearl Harbor survivors that are mostly in their late 80s and early 90s. On December 7. Veterans, their families and various dignitaries will bow their heads in a moment of silence at 7:55 a.m., the moment the assault began in 1941. There will be a commemoration of the fallen with military fighter jets flying by. The "missing man formation" is exactly what they’ll fly by. Then there will be a variety of warships going by. The last of the Pearl Harbor survivors could be saluted.
Info from
USA Today
usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-12-05-pearl-harbor-survivors_N.htm
Reuters
reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6B54J720101206
Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor
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