On this day 82 years ago, December 7, 1941, 2,403 service members and civilians were killed in an unprovoked attack on our Armed Forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii by Japan. The next day, President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed a joint session of congress, and the United States formally declared war on Japan…
Today, all US flags and flags of individual states including here in Connecticut, will fly at half staff to honor the American patriots who lost their lives as a result of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.