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U.S. NAVY PHOTO
The USS Arizona burning after the Japanese attack on Pearl
Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
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Gov.
Steve Beshear has directed that flags at all state office buildings be
lowered to half-staff from sunrise to sunset Sunday in
observance
of National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.
This is in memory of and to honor the 2,400 Americans who died in the
surprise attack on the U.S. Fleet’s Pearl Harbor base in the
early-morning hours of Dec. 7, 1941. President Franklin D. Roosevelt
declared Dec. 7, 1941, “a day which will live in infamy”
and signed the Declaration of War against Japan the following day, Dec.
8, 73 years ago.
Gov. Beshear encourages individuals, businesses, organizations and government agencies to join in this tribute.
