PORT JERVIS—It was a warm and sunny Saturday when some 15 people, mostly veterans, gathered on the Mid-Delaware Bridge to recognize a dark spot in American history—Pearl Harbor Day.
“Dec. 7, 1941—that date which will live in infamy—the United States of American was suddenly and deliberately attacked by the naval and air forces of the empire of Japan,” quoted Tri-State Naval Ship VFW Post 7241 Captain Roger Fuller from a broadcast of former president Franklin D. Roosevelt.
A naval base in Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii was attacked in the early morning of Dec. 7, destroying nearly 20 naval vessels and over 200 aircraft. More than 2,000 American soldiers died in the attack and more than 1,000 were injured.
Navy Chaplain and WWII vet, Vincent Livingston, was one of the few if not the only person at the ceremony who remembered when it happened.
