Clinton Declares Pearl Harbor Day
President Clinton on Tuesday declared today Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, ordering all federal offices to fly U.S. flags at half-staff.
“Those Americans who remember World War II have a profound responsibility: to pass on the lessons of that conflict to the generations that have followed,” he said. “Never again can America be unprepared, or permit an aggressor to threaten our vital interests, or isolate itself . . . .”
The Arizona Memorial, which straddles the sunken battleship at Pearl Harbor, will be the site today of the annual tribute to those killed in the Japanese attack.
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