{"id":14528,"date":"2011-12-07T02:25:42","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T05:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=14528"},"modified":"2011-12-07T02:25:42","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T05:25:42","slug":"pearl-harbor-remembrance-day-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/07\/pearl-harbor-remembrance-day-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Precisely 70 years ago the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor brought the United States into World War II.\u00a0 It was the beginning of four long years of American involvement in the war that had already engulfed the rest of the world for some years.<\/p>\n<p>In his <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu\/tmirhdee.html\">famous speech on December 8th<\/a>, President Franklin D. Roosevelt called <!--more-->December 7th a &#8220;date which will live in infamy.&#8221;\u00a0 Indeed, it does, much as September 11th is engraved on the minds of this most recent generation.\u00a0 FDR spoke passionately and confidently:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph &#8212; so help us God.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The single two-hour attack resulted in 15 Medals of Honor, five\u00a0of which went to\u00a0survivors.\u00a0 This year, the ashes of two of the survivors, who died decades later, will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/2011\/12\/ap-pearl-harbor-70-years-survivors-share-tales-120611\/\">interred in their sunken ships<\/a>, joining\u00a0with their entombed shipmates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Precisely 70 years ago the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor brought the United States into World War II.\u00a0 It was the beginning of four long years of American involvement in the war that had already engulfed the rest of the world for some years. In his famous speech on December 8th, President Franklin D. Roosevelt called<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1047,91,2,104,123],"class_list":["post-14528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-franklin-d-roosevelt","tag-medal-of-honor","tag-military","tag-pearl-harbor","tag-world-war-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}