Japanese Air Force veteran Maj. Gen. Sachio Sawada signs an autograph for retired Air Force Col. Denver Gray, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2001, at Hickam Air Force Base in Honolulu. Sawada joined the Imperial Navy as a sixteen-year-old boy and became a Zero fighter pilot. Gray was assigned to Hickam during the attack. The two were on hand Thursday for a panel discussion.
U.S. President George W. Bush greets survivors from the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 while visiting aboard the USS Enterprise at the Naval Air Station in Norfolk, Virginia, December 7, 2001. Today marks the 60th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii which brought the United States into World War II.
U.S. President George W. Bush addresses sailors aboard the USS Enterprise at the Naval Air Station in Norfolk, Virginia December 7, 2001.
U.S. sailors listen as U.S. President George W. Bush addresses them aboard the USS Enterprise during a visit to the aircraft carrier at the Norfolk Naval Air Station in Norfolk, Virginia December 7, 2001.
We salute and thank God in His Heaven above for those who gave their lives in World War II. They didn't just fight to avenge Pearl Harbor; they fought in the Pacific, in Europe, Africa, all over Asia........to defend our way of life and to ensure the triumph of free peoples over those who would enslave us.
As we salute those of our sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, or parents who are currently tracking down those who perpetrated our generation's "Pearl Harbor", we remember those who died in their Country's service in Hawaii sixty years ago. God grant mercy to their souls; may He embrace them with His loving arms and provide them eternal comfort.
