Tuesday, December 6, 2011


Memorial on Pearl Harbor Naval Base reads:

IN RECOGNITION OF ALL THE GALLANT MEN
AND WOMEN, MILITARY AND CIVILIAN,
WHO PERFORMED UNPRECEDENTED DEEDS
OF BRAVERY AND HEROISM IN THE SERVICE
OF THEIR COUNTRY AT PEARL HARBOR
ON DECEMBER 7, 1941;

IN MEMORY OF THE BRAVE MEN WHO MADE
THE SUPREME SACRIFICE WHILE SERVING
ON THE VESSELS THAT WERE SUNK OR
DAMAGED IN THAT ATTACK;

IN ADMIRATION OF THE MILITARY AND
CIVILIAN CREWS WHO SALVAGED AND
RETURNED TO MERITORIOUS SERVICE
ALL BUT THREE OF THOSE VESSELS;

IN LASTING TRIBUTE TO THE SPIRIT OF
 THESE PEOPLE, MAY WE FIND EVERLASTING PEACE

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