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An Infamous Date To Remember

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: December 7, 2007

With some fluffy clouds, sunny and warm balmy breezes wafting in off the beautiful blue Pacific Ocean, service personnel and civilians were getting ready to attend church services or trying to sleep late having partied heavily the night before or else were just doing what people usually do on a Sunday morning back in these United States of America.

But this was not to be, because about 8 a.m. that lovely morning all hell broke loose when planes of the Japanese Imperial Navy bombed, strafed and torpedoed targets of opportunity in and around Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, Hawaii.

This "day of infamy" was Dec. 7, 1941, and it changed our lives for ever.

Although only a teenager in Hartford, Conn., at the time, I remember this sneak attack quite clearly - like it occurred yesterday.

Ironically, now our young men and women are again in harm's way, this time in the Middle East.

It seems to me that mankind is quite overdue for a little peace and tranquility!

JOSEPH P. CORELL

Clearwater

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