#28 DECEMBER 7TH

The 70th Anniversary

of the Pearl Harbor attack is today.

Around 2,500 lives were lost that day.

"At 7:55 am (17:55 GMT), the moment Japanese bombers swooped on the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, a ceremony will be held by the wreck of the USS Arizona, one of 12 vessels sunk that day, seven decades ago.
Nearly half of those killed in the attack died almost instantly on the Arizona, when a bomb detonated the giant battleship's munitions depot.


The sinking of the Arizona.
(I had a relative who died on the Arizona,
 my aunt and great grandma went
down there years ago and
found a book with a list of everyone killed
and his name is on that list)



 

Navy Secretary Ray Mabus and military leaders will also be among the 3,000 people expected at Wednesday's event.
A US Navy destroyer will render honours to the Arizona to begin the moment of silence, before F-22 jets flies overhead in "missing man" formation.
Over in Washington DC, Defence Secretary Leon Panetta will lay a wreath at the US Navy Memorial at midday (17:00 GMT).
The Pearl Harbor Survivors Association said it would disband after this year's landmark commemoration because so few veterans remained.
About 7,000 survivors were on hand for the 50th anniversary of the attacks in 1991.
As well as the dozen ships wrecked in the attack on Pearl Harbor, nine other vessels were damaged and the US lost 164 aeroplanes. Sixty-two Japanese died.
Denouncing "a date which will live in infamy", President Franklin Roosevelt went to Congress for a declaration of war, which was approved within hours.
Three days later, Germany declared war on the US. America's entry was to change the course of the conflict."

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16073654