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by Paul Smith, from Clarkton School of Discovery News of the Blues

On the seventh of December, we remember the men who died on December 7, 1941, at the naval base Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii. At that time, Hawaii was not a state but rather a U.S. territory.

It was a surprise military attack by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service. The attack was intended to keep the United States from interfering in later military actions.

When the attack happened, President Franklin D. Roosevelt called the day “a date which will live in infamy.”

2,335 U.S. military men died, along with sixty-eight civilians. The attack on our country destroyed four U.S. battleships and damaged four others, along with damaging numerous other ships and airplanes.

The day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States declared war on Japan and thus entered into World War II.

In 1994, the U.S. Congress declared December 7 as National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. It is not a federal holiday, and government offices, banks, schools, and other businesses are not closed. On December 7 each year, the American flag should be flown at half-staff from sunrise to sunset to remember the Americans killed that day.

Read this article and other reports about historical events in the Clarkton School of Discovery Newspaper. Clarkton School of Discovery Newspaper.