©By Larry Hume (VFW Post 8904)

Flag at Half Staff Alert for Sunday, Dec. 7

December 3, 2025 - National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, also referred to as Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day or Pearl Harbor Day, is observed annually in the United States on December 7, to remember and honor the 2,403 Americans who were killed in the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on December 7, 1941, which led to the United States declaring war on Japan the next day and thus entering World War II.

Pearl Harbor Day Program

December 2, 2025 - It began when Japanese aircraft appeared in the air over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, just before 8am on Sunday morning, December 7, 1941. When the attack ceased shortly before 10am, less than two hours after it began, American forces had paid a fearful price. Eighteen (18) ships were either damaged or sunk, 180 aircraft were destroyed, 2,403 were dead, and thousands of others were wounded.

Beirut Barracks Bombing Remembrance

October 20, 2025 - On Sunday morning, October 23, 1983, at 0622 hours, two truck bombs detonated by suicide bombers struck a Marine compound in Beirut, Lebanon, that housed 300 service members of the Multination Force during a peacekeeping operation in the Lebanese Civil War.  Killed were 220 Marines, 18 sailors, and three soldiers, making this incident the deadliest single-day death toll for the US Marine Corps since the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II.

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