<a href="http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/75th-logo-358x352.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-7229" src="http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/75th-logo-358x352-300x295.jpg" alt="75th-logo-358x352" width="300" height="295" /></a>Today is the <a href="http://www.pearlharbor75thanniversary.com/">75<sup>th</sup> Anniversary of the Pearl Harbor Attack</a>, the day known as a Day of Infamy.

Long before I was born (and probably before most of you were born) on this day in 1941, Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii.

The day after the surprise attack Congress approved President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s request to declare war on Japan with only one dissenting vote.

Then three days later, Germany and Italy also declared war on the United States. Congress reciprocated. America had finally entered the fray known as World War II.

Our national history (and many of our personal histories) changed forever. <span class="st">Franklin Delano Roosevelt said, </span><span class="st">"<em>This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.</em>"</span>

Fathers, husbands, <a href="http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/dorsey-flipped.jpg"><img class="wp-image-7230 size-thumbnail alignleft" src="http://judythewriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/dorsey-flipped-150x150.jpg" alt="dorsey-flipped" width="150" height="150" /></a>boyfriends, sons, and daughters went off to fight the war. Brave soldiers who answered the call.

My father. My uncle did. So did my father’s sister.<span class="st">
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So many lost their lives. Those ones still living today are in their twilight years.

<a href="https://www.arizonafinalsalute.com/">Of the 334 men who survived the <em>Arizona</em> attack at Pearl Harbor, only five are still alive today.</a>

Let’s take a minute this Pearl Harbor Day to remember the Greatest Generation who willingly gave their all to provide protection and security to our nation and the world.