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ROOSEVELT CALLED IT A
"DATE THAT WILL
LIVE IN INFAMY."
AND AT JOINT
EXPEDITIONARY BASE LITTLE
CREEK-FORT STORY,
IT IS A DAY MARKED EACH
YEAR WITH A SIMPLE, BUT
CEREMONY.
THE JAPENESE ATTACK ON
PEARL HARBOR KILLED MORE
THAN 2-
CIVILIAN PERSONNEL, AND
INJURED MORE THAN
A THOUSAND. LOCAL
SURVIVORS GATHERED ONCE
AGAIN, TO LEAD THE
MEMORIAL SERVICE AT
LITTLE CREEK.
10 ON YOUR SIDE'S ART
KOHN WAS ALSO THERE AND
JOINS US NOW. ART.
FOR 71-YEARS NOW THEY
HAVE GATHERED TO REMEMBER
THEIR
FALLEN SHIPMATES. THE
NUMBER OF LOCAL PEARL
HARBOR SURVIVORS
HAS DWINDLED BUT THEIR
AMERICA NEVER
FORGETS THAT DAY, HAS NOT
DIMINISHED.
(SOUND OF SHIP'S BELL)
"PEARL HARBOR SURVIVOR"
(SOUND OF BOATSWAIN'S
NATIONALLY THERE ARE
ROUGHLY 8- THOUSAND
SURVIVORS OF THE ATTACK
ON PEARL HARBOR STILL
ARE FAR LESS.
"THERE ARE NAMES OF 192
INSCRIBED ON THIS
MEMORIAL. AND OF THOSE
192, WE HAVE TWELVE LOCAL
THE CALL."
"READY, AIM, FIRE (***)"
"WE'RE SLOWLY FADING
AWAY." YET THE SURVIVING
FEW STAND FAST TO
MAKE SURE THE MEMORIES OF
THE DEPARTED, REMAIN.
"AN AWFUL LOT OF PEOPLE
THAT LOST THEIR LIVES AND
THE PAST PRESIDENT OF THE
CHEBETAR PASSED AWAY LAST
YEAR.
"HE WOULD HAVE BEEN
SITTING RIGHT NEXT TO ME.
ELLEN, FOUND A WAY TO
MAKE SURE HER
FATHER DID NOT MISS THIS
YEAR'S CEREMONY.
"AS THE CEREMONY WAS
GOING ON I COULD JUST
FEEL HIS AIR OVER ALL OF
DAY.
"HE ALWAYS WANTED THIS
COUNTRY TO MAINTAIN A
STRONG MILITARY PRESENCE
AND IN DOING SO HE WANTED
EVERYONE TO REMEMBER WHAT
TOOK PLACE ON THAT DAY.
THE HISTORY OF IT."
"AT 0755 THE FIRST OF TWO
NAVAL FORCES AT PEARL
HARBOR BY SURPRISE. THE
LEFT DEAD OR WOUNDED. YET
MEN LIKE THESE, MEMBERS
"GREATEST GENERATION"
AMERICA IS WE KEEP HAVING
THE NEXT "GREATEST
GENERATION."
GENERATION."