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Remembering a Kentucky family’s sacrifice 84 years after Pearl Harbor

Gunner’s Mate Third Class Lambert Ray Tapp was aboard the USS Arizona on Dec. 7, 1941. (National Archives)L.A. and Gertrude Tapp knew their son was serving aboard the USS Arizona when they heard the big battleship had sunk in the surprise Japanese air attack that plunged the United States into World War II. Gunner’s Mate Third Class Lambert Ray Tapp was 23 and aboard the USS Arizona on Dec. 7, 1941. But for two agonizing weeks, the owners of Sha…

TO THE EDITOR: 'reflect on the cost of freedom'

TO THE EDITOR: Each year on Dec. 7, the United States observes Pearl Harbor National Remembrance Day to honor the lives lost during the surprise attack on US Naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii in 1941. On that morning, Japanese…

Georgia WWII Heritage Trail remembers Pearl Harbor

PEACHTREE CITY — The Georgia WWII Heritage Trail will join the nation on Sunday, Dec. 7 in honoring the 2,403 Americans killed during the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.