Remember Pearl Harbor

[Brakie]

It is indeed the 75th anniversary. The number is significant as a milestone because its likely the last one that will include many veteran survivors of the 1941 attack. Guys who were 18 years old at Pearl that day are now 93, so the youngest veteran observers of an 80th anniversary will be 98 years old. The eye witnesses will soon all be gone. I was gratified today to hear on Public Radio some recorded accounts made by Minnesota survivors of the attack. Some one had interviewed those guys many years later so their first hand stories will remain documented.

Thankfully there are several good books that gives eyewitness accounts from both sides. One of my favorite books is Walther Lord's "December 7th,Day Of Infamy" that is loaded with personal accounts of the attack. The best part this book was printed in '57 when memories of that attack was still fresh.