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Governor orders flags lowered in remembrance of Pearl Harbor attack
Events include a ceremony at Inland Maritime Museum and a VFW breakfast with presentations, honoring 144 Arkansans present during the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack.
- On Dec. 7, Little Rock's Inland Maritime Museum will hold a remembrance ceremony starting at 11:58 a.m., featuring two speakers including retired U.S. Navy Cmdr. Randy Malone as keynote.
- High wartime casualties drove annual local remembrances, including those honoring 144 Arkansans at Pearl Harbor and 23 killed on the USS Arizona.
- The museum hosts the USS Hoga , a Woban Class District Harbor Tug crewed by 10, that pulled people from water, fought fires, and helped move ships during the attack.
- VFW Post 2278 will host a free breakfast at 7 a.m., then Commander Terry W. Daniell will present a minute-by-minute report, followed by a remembrance service and film screening Sunday.
- The Navy awarded the Hoga to North Little Rock for preservation in 2005 after a national competition, took 10 years to move, and arrived two weeks before the 2015 Pearl Harbor commemoration while the Maritime Museum celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2015.
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WKDZ RadioGov. Beshear Orders Flags Lowered for National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
Governor Andy Beshear has ordered flags at all state office buildings to be flown at half-staff from sunrise to sunset on Sunday, December 7, in honor of National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day honors the more than 2,400 Americans who lost their lives during the surprise attack on the U.S. Naval fleet at Pearl Harbor in the early morning hours of December 7, 1941. President Franklin D. Roosevelt called it “a …
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