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As nation remembers Pearl Harbor attack, historian recalls local detention center
As the nation commemorates the 71st anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor on Friday, local history enthusiasts are focused on a little piece of history near the Crescenta Valley where thousands of individuals of Japanese Americans were held for...
Tags: FBI, Human Interest
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Revisionism Tokyo-style
This month 75 years ago, the people of Nanking, China's ancient capital city, were in the midst of one of the worst atrocities in history, the infamous Rape of Nanking. The truth of what actually happened is at the center of a bitter dispute between China...
Tags: Shinzo Abe, Armed Conflicts, China, Slavery, Japan
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On Twitter, we're remembering Pearl Harbor and recapping Scandal
Good morning it's December 7th and, yes, it's still a day that will live in infamy. Seventy-one years later, Pearl Harbor is attracting a fair amount of search traffic on the Internet. Things should pick up photo wise as remembrances get under way in...
Tags: Google Inc., Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Twitter, Inc., Auto Trends, Kerry Washington
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A day that changed their lives: Memories of Pearl Harbor from a Petoskey couple
Thomas Pinson, of Petoskey, and his wife, Shirley can still clearly remember Dec. 7, 1941. The day changed their lives, changed America and changed the entire course of world history. Many young people today may not be aware that on that day in 1941,...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, U.S. Navy, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Parenting, Europe
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8 U.S. sailors sue Japanese firm over radiation from nuclear meltdown
L.A. NOWEight sailors from the Coronado-based carrier Ronald Reagan are suing the Tokyo Electric Power Co. for allegedly lying about the danger from radiation caused by the meltdown of the Fukushima nuclear plant, according to Bloomberg News. The ship was... -
Pearl Harbor survivor leads charge to identify the unknown dead
HONOLULU — Ray Emory could not accept that more than one quarter of the 2,400 Americans who died at Pearl Harbor were buried, unidentified, in a volcanic crater. And so he set out to restore names to the dead. Emory, a survivor of the attack,...Tags: Lobbying, American Legion, National Parks, Human Interest, Politics
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Pearl Harbor: U.S. remembers a 'date which will live in infamy'
In just over seven minutes, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave voice to a nation’s outrage, branding Dec. 7 as a “date which will live in infamy” for Japan’s attack on the Pearl Harbor Naval Base. Within an hour, Congress had...
Tags: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, U.S. Congress, Barack Obama, World War II (1939-1945)
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Senior Circles: Behind enemy lines in 1944 — a harrowing tale of escape in Holland
We commemorate the surprise attack by the Japanese on the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Dec. 7, 1941. The attack forced the United States entry into World War II. Americans, who grew up during the difficult times of the Great...Tags: Air Transportation Delays, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Ellicott City, Emergency Incidents, Nazi Party
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Burb's Eye View: Vet had a close-up view of Pearl Harbor
Jack Rogo is tough. He's funny. He gets to the point when he's talking to you. And when he begins the story about having breakfast in Pearl Harbor the day it was bombed, he launches into a cadence that years of practice provide. He's the guy you want...Tags: New York City, NoHo, World War II (1939-1945)
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Remembering Pearl Harbor
Seventy-one years ago Friday, on Dec. 7, 1941, Thomas Talbott was in as fine a mood as he can remember.
He was 19, a Marine corporal stationed on the balmy Hawaiian island of Oahu. His unit, assigned to secure the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, was...Tags: Navy Yard, Army National Guard, World War II (1939-1945), Human Interest
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Service news
Marine Corps Pvt. Brennan E. Holloway, son of Shawn C. and Donald E. Holloway of Greencastle, Pa., earned the title of U.S. Marine after graduating from recruit training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, S.C. Holloway is a 2012 graduate...Tags: Frederick (Frederick, Maryland)
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Sen. Daniel Inouye dies at 88; war hero
When Daniel K. Inouye was 17, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. An aspiring surgeon, he spent much of the next week helping care for the wounded at an elementary school in his native Honolulu. He wanted to enlist immediately but couldn't. Japanese...Tags: PBS (tv network), Iraq War (2003-2011), U.S. Congress, Shootings, Politics
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