pearl harbor

This is pretty cool! The Lancaster Marching Band was invited to go to Pearl Harbor to perform in the Pearl Harbor parade coming up in December to honor the men and women who were involved in the "Day that will live in infamy" 78 years ago...

It's a phrase that was used by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in one of the most famous speeches in American history.  It's his address to Congress asking them to declare war on the day after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

You probably know the story of the Orson Wells radio spoof back in 1938.  Back then he was doing a weekly radio show when it was interrupted by what sounded like a very real report that an alien space ship had landed in New Jersey.  And even though they told people throughout the program that it wasn’t real – people thought it was and it kept the country in a panic for hours. All over the coun...

It was 10 years ago today that a U-S nuclear submarine collided with a Japanese fishing boat in of all places Pearl Harbor.  But the circumstances of how it happened are bizarre.  The crew of the submarine USS Greenville was hosting 16 civilians on board that day as part of the Distinguished Visitor program.  They were taken out for a ride and one of the final maneuvers was what’s called an Emerge

December 7th, 1941 – President Franklin Roosevelt called it a date that will live in infamy.  It’s the day the Japanese attacked the U-S Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor.  The following day the U-S and Great Britain declared war on Japan.