Pearl Harbor remembrance ceremony marks 84 years since attack

The Pearl Harbor remembrance ceremonial began successful Hawaii connected Sunday with a infinitesimal of soundlessness astatine 7:55 a.m., the aforesaid clip the Japanese bombing began connected Dec. 7, 1941.

The yearly ceremonial marked the 84th day of the attack, which killed much than 2,300 troops and propelled the U.S. into World War II. 

"With this commemoration we admit the value of remembering the infinitesimal successful the past erstwhile the prospects for bid were shattered and our federation was plunged into planetary war," said David Ono, the event’s maestro of ceremonies.

Survivors of the onslaught person agelong been the halfway of the remembrance ceremonial held astatine the subject base’s waterfront, though contiguous lone 12 troops are inactive alive. All centenarians, this twelvemonth nary were capable to marque the pilgrimage to Hawaii to people the event. That means nary 1 attending had firsthand memories of serving during the attack.

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The USS Arizona Memorial is seen earlier the 84th day of the onslaught connected Pearl Harbor, Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025, successful Honolulu. (AP Photo/Mengshin Lin)

In his remarks, Ono said the ceremonial serves not lone arsenic a infinitesimal of reflection and gratitude but besides arsenic a telephone to enactment to physique upon the coagulated instauration built by the Greatest Generation.

FILE - American ships pain during the Japanese onslaught connected Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Dec. 7, 1941. (AP Photo, File)

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Survivors person been contiguous each twelvemonth successful caller memory except for 2020, when the Navy and the National Park Service closed the observance to the wide nationalist due to the fact that of coronavirus pandemic wellness risks.

FILE - Pearl Harbor survivors ticker a vintage WWII airplane alert implicit Pearl Harbor astatine the ceremonial commemorating the 72nd day of the onslaught connected Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 2013, successful Honolulu. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia, File)

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About 2,000 survivors attended the 50th day lawsuit successful 1991. A fewer twelve person shown successful caller decades. Last year, only 2 made it. That is retired of an estimated 87,000 troops stationed connected Oahu that day.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.