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Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day in Oregon Honors 65th Anniversary of the Attack

In conjunction with a national day of remembrance, Governor Ted Kulongoski has signed a proclamation that designates December 7th as Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day in Oregon

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More than 500,000 Americans lost their lives during World War II including over 2,800 Oregonians.

(SALEM) - This year marks the 65th anniversary of the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii by the military forces of Japan–an action that prompted the United States to declare war on the Japanese and enter World War II.

Jim Willis, the Director of the Oregon Department of Veterans’ Affairs, said the lesson of Pearl Harbor is as important today as it was 65 years ago.

“We must never forget the courage and determination of the American people to ultimately triumph following such a tragedy. On that ‘date which will live in infamy’, all who died or were injured put country before self,” Willis said. “Americans remember Pearl Harbor so that the strength and character of its veterans will continue to live in our hearts. Our support of today’s U.S. servicemen and women helps to ensure that the sacrifices made by previous generations are not without purpose.”

The attack on Pearl Harbor by nearly 300 Japanese aircraft, killed 2,400 military personnel and wounded more than 1,100. Sixty-eight civilians were killed and 103 wounded. Additionally, 20 naval ships were sunk or damaged, and 169 aircraft were destroyed.

In Oregon there are an estimated 100-130 Pearl Harbor survivors. More than 500,000 Americans lost their lives during World War II including over 2,800 Oregonians. By war’s end in 1945, some 16 million men and women had served in the United States Armed Forces.

The Congress, by Public Law 103-308, as amended, has designated December 7th of every year as “National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.” President George W. Bush has urged all Federal agencies, interested organizations, groups, and individuals to fly the flag of the United States at half-staff on December 7th.




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Raven December 10, 2006 1:14 pm (Pacific time)

Albert, as Seth has mentioned....Re: The Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States was never ratified by a majority of the sovereign States...which means...if it really annoys you so much, you don't have to pay the tax. Your're a savvy guy, you'll be able to keep yourself out of prison. Simply bring the evedence to the courts as to how the 16th was never ratified and that we'de been lied to ever since 1913 that it was necessary to collect these taxes. Then you won't have to be annoyed anymore. By the way...is their anything that does'nt annoy you? Do you like anything? Or is it all about the "Three B's" with you...Bullshit(sharing only facts and no feelings), Bragging(sharing only how great "I" am) and Belly aching(always feeling sorry for oneself, complaining)


Seth Rodstrom December 10, 2006 10:37 am (Pacific time)

Oh, ok cool Al. Listen you mispelled my last name... I'de like to chat with you via e-mail again. Same address?


Albert Marnell December 9, 2006 9:09 pm (Pacific time)

Seth Hogan, I know. What really annoys me is that the money is not used to build roads or other government projects of use to the citizens of this messed up place. The money goes to people who own the shares of the twelve member banks of the Federal Reserve. We are all being fleeced.


Seth Rodstrom December 8, 2006 4:52 am (Pacific time)

Albert, The Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States was never ratified by a majority of the sovereign States. This is the Amendment that allegedly entitled the Federal Agent (government) in the federal territory of Washington, D.C. and their private collection company, the IRS, to collect "income tax" was falsely declared to be ratified in February 1913 by Secretary of State Philander Knox. God Bless America!


Johnny Ray Jr. December 7, 2006 4:13 pm (Pacific time)

The here and now is that WWII is over, and we won. I agree that flags should be at half-staff, seems a good way for the uneducated to notice that something of significance happened Dec 7th. Peace, not war, should be the priority though, and lessons should be acknowleged, shared and learned, and not repeated. This is still the land of the free, and the brave.


Albert Marnell December 5, 2006 7:30 pm (Pacific time)

Raven, you are a true romantic. All human life is equal and I get tired of certain groups wanting special attention for their pity parties when they do not give a damn about anyone else who dies. Very, very soon we will all be dead. Tempus Fugit and no one is more important than anyone else.


Raven December 5, 2006 9:30 am (Pacific time)

Jesus people....can't we just take a moment to remember the fallen without a bunch of conspiracy rhetoric? The point is that lives were lost and they should be honored and remembered. Get off of your soapboxes for just a minute people and quit using comments to spout your reasoning when it is not appropriate.


Albert Marnell December 4, 2006 7:18 pm (Pacific time)

Sorry Matt, At the time it was shown on the H Channel the story was reported as fact. She was to fly over the Marshall Islands at the request of F.D.R. and was taken down. She died in a Japanese prisoner of war camp and letters to her husband were allowed to go out until her death around 1943. You can always write to them or whatever.


Joey December 4, 2006 11:29 am (Pacific time)

Yes Matt let's thank the Illuminati for pulling off Pearl 11. Let's thank those who perished for being their instead of us.


Matt December 4, 2006 9:52 am (Pacific time)

Albert, That History Channel story also had several other theories about what Earhardt was doing. That was but one that was barely touched on Review it again. Considering her desire to become the first woman to fly around the world, her concern for fuel consumption, navigation, and what limited recon abilities we had from the air in those days...I highly doubt her flight and any possible intell from it would've done anything to help our war effort. The speculation behind her death is as varied as conspiracy theories with JFK's assassination (of which I feel there was one). Respectfully to you, this story is about recalling Pearl Harbor and remembering the dead from that event. Let's focus on that for now.


Proud American December 4, 2006 8:42 am (Pacific time)

Albert, millions agree, 9-11 and pearl harbor are synonymous. But I'm a proud American so I'm just gonna shove down another hotdog and shove another peice of apple pie down my throught while innocent everywhere around the world gets destroyed by the evil warmongers who where supposed to be patriotically supporting. Hurray! Wave the flag high! Be proud to be!


Seth Rodstrom December 4, 2006 7:48 am (Pacific time)

Until you've all read "Barbarians Inside The Gates" by Donn de Grand Pre's and books like "Great American Ripoff, or Fourth Reich Of The Rich.....just forget it. Accepance that you're all just clueless will lend to your blissfullness. Any of you who think you have a clue...just put your head back in the sand.


His Story December 4, 2006 3:29 am (Pacific time)

Dear Henry, Would you not want to know the real reason that your loved one or friend died in a conflict rather than live in a romantic fantasy? All war is about money, power and land. Even religion is a surface issue. When everyone is rich, they are having too much fun to be bothered killing and hateing each other.


Albert Marnell December 4, 2006 3:23 am (Pacific time)

Bingo Proud American, Americans live on one-liners from television and fifth-rate newspapers and run with the propaganda and lies. I guess it is easy to liberate people when you kill all the civilians just like they did to the German civilians and then they estimate deaths on the very low side. I would not be surprised if one million Iraqis have been killed. I know the estimates of the German civilian deaths were greatly underestimated. During the First World War the British and Americans admit "check the history books" to killing 750,000 civilians from the British Naval Blockade in the winter of 1917. If that is what they admit from one incident of cutting off food and fuel to the general public during the brutally cold winter of Northern Germany in 1917, what are the real death toll numbers? For those of you who do not read history, one out of four soldiers in the German Army during the first World War were Jewish. Thank you for throwing a spotlight on foreign civilian deaths when Americans get all worked up by less than 3000 domestic deaths from an attack that our own government was in on. Ask Marvin Bush or Larry Silverstein. If people do not know who these people are by now, we are in extra bad shape. How about "Operation Northwoods?"


Proud American December 3, 2006 7:58 pm (Pacific time)

A team of American and Iraqi epidemiologists estimates that 655,000 more people have died in Iraq since coalition forces arrived in March 2003 than would have died if the invasion had not occurred. But who gives a damn about iraqi lives, right. Only Amercans count. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/10/AR2006101001442.html


Henry Ruark December 3, 2006 2:42 am (Pacific time)

Al et al: History, historically for centuries, is rewritten time-and-again by many, for many purposes. What you state may be correct, but many will feel this Day should be left unscarred for those who died, whatever the cause of the conflict itself. I appreciate your intensity and determination to convey the truth as you know it.


Albert Marnell December 2, 2006 6:54 am (Pacific time)

Before you get all patriotic while multinationals are outsourcing your jobs. Read "The Economic Consequences of the Peace" by John Maynard Keynes, written in 1920. He predicted what the Treaty of Versailles would bring. That treaty created economic collapse which peaked in November 1923. The treaty was signed by the Allies and many did so with discomfort. Stop blaming the Germans for everything. I know that main stream media loves to do this because it deflects attention from the truth. The Rothchild Banking family took part in the development of the Treaty. They are so wealthy that they were lending money to Germany and Turkey at exorbitant rates which could not continue. They then confiscated railway rights from Turkey and Germany in Palestine for the preparation of the creation of Israel. This was long before Hitler took power. So history as you were taught it is almost totally fiction. You were never told that we toppled Hussein because special interests wanted Halliburton to invade Iraq.


Albert Marnell December 2, 2006 4:35 am (Pacific time)

Amelia Earhart was on a secret spy mission for F.D.R. The Japanese put her in a camp where she died before the end of the war. We were all lied to for almost 60 years. Don't argue with me, argue with the "History Channel". We also wanted a sucker punch from Japan in the same way that our government helped to create 9/11. American is losing her place at the top because we are no longer the most crooked nation in the world. Today China gets that award and will beat us economically by a long shot. Let them live in their economic hell of capitalism out of control. We have lived with it long enough and I hope that we are going in the opposite direction. Material things can satisfy the human soul for only a very short period of time. The Chinese have not yet learned this. As far as the World War II death toll for the United States, I say, "Sorry but what about the 60,000 million that died world wide?... Russians, Germans, Jews from every country, Poles, Japanese. We should have just let the Germans fight the Bolsheviks in the First World War and beat the Russians. There would never have been a Cold War or a Holocaust. America and the United Kingdom are to blame for some of the most horrible conflicts of the 20th Century. If we are so concerned about human life. Why did we not help the Ukrainians when Stalin removed the top soil in 1933, sent it to Russia and the result was 20 million Ukrainians dying of starvation. Hitler was not the mad man of the 20th century, Stalin was. As a matter of fact, Hitler was a result of the Treaty of Versailles written by the allies and the Rothchild banking family which led to the total collapse of the German economy after the First World War. The Germans were only fighting our future enemies...the Bolsheviks or as we called them later....Communists.

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