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Remembering Pearl Harbor
The Long Shadow of Infamy
Pearl Harbor survivors Arnold Schwichtenberg, left, and Charlie Boswell salute during the Pearl Harbor Day ceremony last Wednesday in Fredericksburg. They were the only two survivors present at the ceremony for the tragic day’s 75th anniversary.
Art Dlugach
FREDERICKSBURG — On this Day of Prayer, the Day the Bible says, “God rested.” Americans did not have time to pray, and the Japanese did not rest. It was tragic beyond comprehension. It was a horrific shock. The U.S.S. Arizona, Oklahoma, California, Pennsylvania, Nevada and Tennessee: names of these states and others were on ships and lined up on an island that would become — but was not yet — a state, itself.
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