Press play to listen to President Franklin D. Roosevelt deliver the now famous Day in Infamy speech that came one day after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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The attack destroyed or damaged nearly 20 U.S. Navy ships, including the USS Arizona, a Pennsylvania-class battleship. The Arizona's casualties numbered in thousands and accounted for half of the deceased that day.
The battleship remains sunken in the harbor with its crew onboard, while a United States flag flies overhead to serve as a memorial for all those that lost their lives in the attack.
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A local high school marching band traveled to Hawaii over Thanksgiving break to perform in the Waikiki Holiday Parade commemorating the anniversary. While on the trip, the Hamilton High band performed on the the USS Missouri and laid a wreath at the Pearl Harbor memorial.
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This news outlet was able to gather first-hand accounts from two local Pearl Harbor survivors. Then-Navy Petty officers Frank M. Ruby and Rolla "Ed" Malan witnessed the attack from two places, one on a barge and the other in a barracks while his ship was under repair.
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Ruby, 99, was aboard an oil barge laden with tens and thousands of gallons of fuel and watched as the USS Arizona exploded.
“That’s about the time I decided this wasn’t too good a place to be,” the retired postal carrier said.
Malan, 96, was in the submarine barracks that morning while his ship, the mine layer USS Preble, was under repair with no guns or ammunition aboard.
Others did not survive. Seventy-five years after the attack, a Springfield native's ashes were returned home to be buried next to family.
The sailor, William "Billy" Welch, was on the USS Oklahoma, the first ship attacked during the aerial assault. Welch was one of the bodies that was not able to be identified directly after the attack.
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The U.S Department of Defense has worked to use DNA to match remains of unidentified military personnel so families could have closure.