Pearl Harbor Anniversary

HONOLULU (AP) - The event that thrust the United States into
World War II took place 66 years ago today: the Japanese attack on
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
Waves of Japanese planes broke the quiet of a sunny Sunday
morning, damaging or destroying U.S. warships and planes and
killing more than 2400 people, both military and civilian.
A day later, on December 8th, President Franklin Roosevelt went
before a joint session of Congress to declare the attack an act of
infamy and ask for a declaration of war. It was granted within
hours.
This year's commemoration in Hawaii is remembering life on the
homefront. The Islands endured three years of martial law. Joan
Rodby, who was ten at the time, says it was "more or less living
in constant fear" that the attackers were going to come back."
She recalls having to carry a gas mask everywhere, even for her
fifth-grade class photo.
Japan surrendered on September 2nd 1945. Germany had surrendered
three months earlier.