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Survivors Honor Pearl Harbor Victims - New York Times

One by one, aging survivors from ships sunk 65 years ago Thursday in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor laid wreaths under life preserver rings honoring their ships.

Nearly 500 survivors bowed their heads at 7:55 a.m., the minute planes began bombing the harbor in a surprise attack that thrust the United States into World War II.

Today marks the 65th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, something many see as the first aggressive attack on America ever. As Noam Chomsky points out, this is false because Hawaii was merely a colony at the time of the attack.

Regardless of who’s land Hawaii was, or who attacked America when and how, this launched America full swing into World War II and thus it’s a day that should be remembered. My issue is that days like this, in the recent years, have been romanticized into something they’re not. While Pearl Harbor is generally perceived to be the aggressive attack on an innocent America, in reality it was the switch that got flipped turning America against fascist regimes they had previously supported: the Germans and the Italians.

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