December 7, 1941. A radio announcer breaks into the regularly scheduled program to tell us that the Japanese have attacked Pearl Harbor...
I've often tried to imagine what it must have been like for my grandparents on that day, just weeks before the joyous Christmas holiday. I wonder if they experienced feelings similar to those I felt on September 11, 2001... Shock, disbelief, anger, grief. Thousands of lives were lost in a matter of minutes.
Here is the shorter version (32 mins.) of John Ford's "December 7th" - worth watching particularly for the section which pays tribute the American soldiers killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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