On August 23, 1994, the United States Congress designated December 7 of each year as National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. What domestic support for non-interventionism was left after the Fall of France in 1940 had completely disappeared. responded with a declaration of war against Germany and Italy. Roosevelt called the bombing “a date which will live in infamy.” On December 11 Germany and Italy each declared war on the U.S. In a speech to Congress that day, President Franklin D. On December 8, the United States declared war on Japan, entering World War II on the side of the Allies.
Within hours of the attack, Canada became the first Western nation to declare war on Japan. The surprise attack came as a shock to the American people and led directly to the American entry into World War II in both European and Pacific theaters. The attack, carried out by 353 Imperial Japanese aircraft in two waves, commenced at 7:48 am Hawaiian Time. Over the course of seven hours there were coordinated Japanese attacks on the United States-held Philippines, Guam, and Wake Island and on the British Empire in Malaya, Singapore, and Hong Kong. Japan intended this attack as a preventative action to keep the United States Pacific Fleet from interfering with its planned military actions against the territories of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the United States in Southeast Asia. 188 aircraft were destroyed and 159 were damaged. This attack sank four United States Navy battleships, damaged four others, damaged three cruisers, three destroyers, and one minelayer. The attack killed 2,403 American servicemen and injured 1,178 others. On Sunday morning, December 7, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service attacked Naval Station Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, without a declaration of war and without warning. Today, we remember the tragic events that took place on this fateful day. Note: The proclamation was released by the Office of the Press Secretary on December 3.December 7 is the anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this second day of December, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-six, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and eleventh. Now, Therefore, I, Ronald Reagan, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim December 7, 1986, as National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, and I call upon the people of the United States to observe this solemn occasion with appropriate ceremonies and activities and to pledge eternal vigilance and strong resolve to defend this Nation and its allies from all future aggression. The Congress, by Public Law 99 - 534, has designated Decem, as ``National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day'' and authorized and requested the President to issue a proclamation in observance of this day. We live in a world made more free, more just, and more peaceful by those who will answer roll call no more, those who will report for muster never again. As President Franklin Roosevelt told our Nation the day after Pearl Harbor was attacked, ``It is our obligation to our dead - it is our sacred obligation to their children and our children - that we must never forget what we have learned.'' We do so as well by protecting the Nation and the freedom they protected and by forging the resolve, the strength, and the military preparedness necessary to deter attack and to preserve and build the peace. Their sacrifice was for a cause, not for conquest for a world that would be safe for future generations. Such destruction seared the memory of a generation and galvanized the will of the American people in a fight to maintain our right to freedom without fear.Įvery honor is appropriate for the courageous Americans who made the supreme sacrifice for our Nation at Pearl Harbor and in the many battles that followed in World War II. This attack claimed the lives of 2,403 Americans, wounded 1,178 more, and damaged our naval capabilities in the Pacific. On that Sunday morning, 45 years ago, the Imperial Japanese Navy launched an unprovoked, surprise attack upon units of the Armed Forces of the United States stationed at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Of these occurrences, none could have had more significance for our Nation than Decem. In the annals of American history, only a few events are so well-known and so deeply rooted in national remembrance that the mere mention of their date suffices to describe them. By the President of the United States of America
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