SEVENTY YEARS ago this Wednesday, a wave of Japanese war planes swooped over America’s chief Pacific Naval base at Pearl Harbor and dropped their armor-piercing bombs on “Battleship Row.” The attack ...

As the aircraft carrier USS Princeton glided to a berth in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, crew members stood on the flight desk manning the rails, a naval tradition. My position was on the side of the ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt's address to Congress on Dec. 8, 1941, in the aftermath of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7 -- his "day of infamy" speech -- is among the most iconic messages ...

Patrick Wilkins flanked his two sons as they stared up at the words, engraved in marble, spoken by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on Dec. 8, 1941. “A date which will live in infamy,” the Beaufort, ...

Miss Leonidas Jones, who taught U.S. History to some of Enterprise High School’s 1968 graduating class when we were Enterprise Junior High School eighth-grade students, 1963-64, would be pleased her ...