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DECEMBER 7th, 1941 : DECEMBER 7th, 2008 = 67 YEARS JAPAN DECLARED WAR ON AMERICA Flags at half-staff for Pearl Harbor Day Flags should be flown at half-staff Sunday, National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, in respect for the victims of Pearl Harbor. DECEMBER 7th, 1941 : DECEMBER 7th, 2008 = 67 YEARS JAPAN DECLARED WAR ON AMERICA Flags at half-staff for Pearl Harbor Day Flags should be flown at half-staff Sunday, National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, in respect for the victims of Pearl Harbor. United States flag should be flown at half-staff from sunrise to sunset Sunday. This year is...

Overview and Special Image Selection The 7 December 1941 Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor was one of the great defining moments in history. A single carefully-planned and well-executed stroke removed the United States Navy's battleship force as a possible threat to the Japanese Empire's southward expansion. America, unprepared and now considerably weakened, was abruptly brought into the Second World War as a full combatant.

Edward Dutch Gaulrapp, Pearl Harbor survivor, shares memories of attack Blair Martin, Contributing Writer U.S. Navy photo by MC2 Michael A. Lantron - Pearl Harbor survivor Chief Cook Edward Gaulrapp (Navy Ret.), views the USS Arizona Memorial during a visit to historic Ford Island. Assigned to the Pearl Harbor-based, Perch-class submarine USS Pompano (SS 181), Gaulrapp was in his barracks when the Dec. 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor began. It has taken former Navy Chief Petty Officer Edward "Dutch" Gaulrapp more than 60 years to come back to Pearl Harbor to commemorate the 66th anniversary of the Dec. 7,...

Forgetting Pearl Harbor By Ken MasugiPosted December 7, 2005 Every few months it seems we are presented with yet another poll revealing astounding ignorance of basic American history by especially the young. The tendency is aggravated by the forces of political correctness, i.e., the liberal understanding of America, which emphasize a distortion of that history to favor a leftist contemporary political outcome. This type of knavery has always been around--we can go back to 1913 for the egregious example in Charles Beard's An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States . This work set off a whole...