Tributes Mark 47th Year Since Pearl Harbor
The 47th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was marked today with prayers, a moment of silence and a Navy tribute over the hull of the sunken battleship Arizona.
“History was to prove these men did not die in vain. . . . We have become a symbol of freedom, of democracy and of world leadership,” Adm. David E. Jeremiah said at the Arizona Memorial, which spans the sunken hull of the ship on which 1,177 men died.
The Park Service said that 1,000 people--sailors past and present, tourists and history buffs--marked the attack in a Park Service ceremony on the harbor shore and that 5,000 others attended programs and lectures throughout the day.
More than 2,400 people were killed and 1,200 wounded in the sneak attack at 7:55 a.m. Dec. 7, 1941, that carried the United States into World War II.
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