Links and Minifeatures 12 07 Remember Pearl Harbor!

65 Years Today: Survivors Honor Pearl Harbor Victims



Fewer of the survivors are left every year. There will now be people drawing full social security who were not born then. If they were 17 when the attack hit, they are 82 now. Every one of them survived not only Pearl Harbor, but the rest of World War II in military service. It's been said before, but these people did nothing less than save the world.



Thank You All. You're heroes in my book.



The ending of the article is encouraging:

Some Japanese veterans and American survivors have reconciled in the decades since.



Japanese dive bomber pilot Zenji Abe has apologized to American survivors for the sudden attack, ashamed his government failed to deliver a declaration of war in time for the assault.



The Japanese aviators who carried out the attack thought the declaration had already been made by the time they started bombing, Abe has said.