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...15, 1921, in Inwood, Iowa. He was united in marriage to Margaret on March 14, 1945, in California. He was a Pearl Harbor survivor and received a Purple Heart, served on the USS Nevada as a Gunner's Mate serving in multiple campaigns...
...strangers to them, but we were always treated as honored guests. The Navy personnel said it to us when we sang at Pearl Harbor. University professors and students said it to us when we were at the university. But also people on the street...
...Depression brought a widely popular U.S. retreat from internationalism, economic as well as political. But the attack on Pearl Harbor demonstrated that the United States could not avoid the responsibility of engagement with the world in the cause of freedom...
...rejecting their mother's cultural heritage are in favor of being more "American." Then comes the day of infamy in Pearl Harbor, and the women are sent, often with their children, to internment camps for the duration of the war. Otsuka's...
Seventy-one years ago this month, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and brought America into a war that had begun in Europe in 1939.In his masterful new book "December 1941: 31 Days That Changed...
...risk of a devastating cyberattack on the United States is real. Yet the country remains vulnerable to an electronic Pearl Harbor due to a political dispute over the role the federal government should play in securing the computer networks that control...
...28 fiasco: In the movie, "Tora, Tora, Tora," a Japanese admiral wondered out loud if the impending attack on Pearl Harbor was going to awaken a sleeping giant. I believe the Supreme Court decision will awaken a sleeping giant, now that...
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warns of a Pearl Harbor-type sneak attack on the United States by its adversaries...were quick to back up Panetta's theoretical "cyber-Pearl Harbor" attack on the United States. They insisted that his...
...in his hometown and, already a private pilot, volunteered for the Army Air Force soon after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The Army didn't have enough airfields or training planes to take him until 1943. He married his wife, Eleanor...
Today is Pearl Harbor Day. Seventy-one years ago, at...remains one of the primary memorials at Pearl Harbor to this day.It should be noted that...the attack on the naval facility at Pearl Harbor, the Japanese attacked and destroyed...