Lindsay High remembers Pearl Harbor

With the stars and stripes flying at half-staff at all the schools and government buildings in observance of the day Pearl Harbor was attacked by Japanese airplanes, the small community of Lindsay paid tribute to the many military personal that were lost on Dec. 7, 1941.

 On Dec. 7, 1941, a day that President Roosevelt declared as “A date which will live in infamy” the United States suffered an attack that would not be matched until September 11, 2001.

Backed by President Barack Obama, Congress passed public law 103-308 stating that December 7th would be known as National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.

At his urging, it is recommended that Americans observe this day to honor military that died at the hands of the Japanese on that Sunday morning seventy years ago.

Students at Lindsay High School were given special assignments to learn more about the day The U.S.S. Arizona was sent to a murky grave in Hawaiian waters along with the 3,500 brave military personal that perished that day.

While current students and even the parents of students at Lindsay High are too young to know firsthand of the Pearl Harbor tragedy, most have some remembrance of the events that took place on 9-11, when four commercial airplanes were hijacked and crashed in to the World Trade Center, The Pentagon and a remote area of Pennsylvania. These special assignments and the passing of public law 103-308 will ensure that December 7th will not only be remembered as the date of infamy, but will also be remembered as a date of tribute much as 9-11 has become.