Congresswoman Colleen Hanabusa released the following statement today marking the 70th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
“President Franklin Roosevelt called it ‘a date which will live in infamy,’ and his characterization was exactly right. After seventy years, the anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor remains in the public consciousness, especially in Hawaii, where so many of us have heard the first-hand stories, and where we continue to look with sadness and humility at the memorials to those lost on that day.”
“In the ensuing decades, America has seen more wars, and has again felt the horror and anger of an attack by a cowardly enemy. We have erected fresh memorials and shed fresh tears. But we have also come together as a nation, as we did in the months following December 7, 1941, and have again proven that as a united country, our potential has no limits. For me, that is the lesson of 1941. Not that the world is capable of such evil, but that we are capable of such strength,” Hanabusa said.
