REMEMBERING PEARL HARBOR

LOCAL VETERANS REMEMBERED THE DAY THAT LIVES IN INFAMY IN SPECIAL CEREMONIES TODAY IN MORNINGSIDE.

70 YEARS AGO ON DECEMBER 7TH, 1941, JAPAN ATTACKED OUR NAVY BASE AT PEARL HARBOR, KILLING 2400 AMERICANS AND PLUNGING THE UNITED STATES INTO WORLD WAR TWO.

AIR FORCE CHAPLAIN MERRILL MULLER SPOKE AT THE REMEMBRANCE, AND DREW A COMPARISON WITH A MORE RECENT TRAGEDY.

THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR ALSO CALLS ATTENTION TO THE FACT THAT THERE ARE FEWER AND FEWER SURVIVING VETERANS OF WORLD WAR TWO.

MOST OF THEM ARE NOW IN THEIR 80'S OR 90'S. ROBERT BURDICK OF SIOUX CITY WAS STATIONED WITH THE 34TH ARMY DIVISION AT CAMP CLAYBORNE LOUISIANA WHEN JAPAN ATTACKED PEARL HARBOR:

BURDICK'S UNIT FIRST WENT TO BELFAST, IRELAND FOR STAGING...AND THEN ON TO THE EUROPEAN MAINLAND FOR COMBAT AGAINST GERMAN FORCES:

BURDICK PARTICIPATED IN THE PEARL HARBOR MEMORIAL CEREMONY THIS MORNING IN MORNINGSIDE.