Pearl Harbor

It's hard to believe that 71 years have passed since the United States entered WWII. But I imagine that for those who lived through the war, the anniversary of Pearl Harbor still holds very fresh — and painful — memories. Whether they lost someone in the attack or later on in WWII, this date marks the day that everything changed.

It's hard to write about Pearl Harbor. I don't feel that I have any words to talk about a day that, honestly, I know nothing about, nor could ever imagine. I simply want to take time to remember everyone who was affected that day, to remember the 2,402 Americans who were killed, and the 1,282 that were wounded.

History - in every century,
records an act that lives forevermore.
We'll recall - as in to line we fall,
the thing that happened on Hawaii's shore.

Let's REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR -
As we go to meet the foe -
Let's REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR
As we did the Alamo.

We will always remember -
how they died for liberty,
Let's REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR
and go on to victory.