70 years ago...

Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, December 7, 1941

It was like just about any other early Sunday morning in paradise...
sunny, sleepy, splendid.  And then all hell broke loose....

Today's generations have 9/11, the unimaginable images and ramifications of
 which will  always be with us. Our parents and grandparents, on the other hand,
had their own such signal event:  Pearl Harbor, which forced an isolationist

  U.S. into WWII, a war that for the rest of the world had begun some two
 years earlier.

Before the conflict was finally over in September, 1945, an estimated

  60 million people had died in the most violent and horrific fighting in history.

 Let us never forget the people whose sacrifices carried us to victory over the

 Nazis and Japanese. Tom Brokaw calls them The Greatest Generation,

and who can dispute that?


Click to view FDR's inspiring "Date which will live in Infamy" speech.