December 7: Pearl Harbor Day

Pearl Harbor Day

December 7

Students, today we look back and reflect upon the events that occurred on December 7, 1941, and how these events changed the course of the United States and other nations from that day forward. 

Attack on Pearl Harbor

December 7, 1941

Jerry Akamu Adams

9 months ago (edited)

fantastic video. I've always been interested in this attack. I live in Hawaii, born and raised, i grew up literally 5 minutes away from pearl harbor. My family has lived in the area around pearl harbor since the 1920s (and still do). My grandfather witnessed the attack as a 18 year old, our family home is on the ridge over looking the harbor (Aiea). From there he saw the whole thing. Saw the USS Arizona explode. He actually was a laborer working at Pearl Harbor but that Sunday was his day off. After the attack he volunteered to go down there and help with the recovery efforts. He recalls seeing truck full of dead bodies being taken away. He later joined the Army and fought with the 25th infantry in the Philippines in 1944-1945. Those memories of the attack and his combat experience in the Philippines stay with him until the day he died (a few years ago) in his 90s.

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