There are a few calendar dates that are burned into the American psyche. Some endure for good and happy reasons. Everybody knows why we celebrate July 4 and December 25. Both are part of our national ...

For the first time since it was founded in 1958, members of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association will not formally gather in Hawaii to commemorate the attack of Dec. 7, 1941. Their failing health ...

So spoke President Franklin D. Roosevelt to members of Congress as he sought their declaration of war against the Japanese empire. Within a brief period after the speech, Congress approved Roosevelt’s ...

Numbers are the narrative of Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor 75 years ago: 2,403 Americans were killed, 1,178 wounded, and 19 ships plus 328 aircraft were damaged or destroyed. It was an ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Wearing a tropical-print shirt, Wilmer “Bill” Bailey smiled brightly in a room of about 50 people. “It’s not a Hawaiian shirt; it’s my aloha shirt,” he said.

The winds of war had been blowing across Europe for more than two years by early December 1941. One after the other, starting with the invasion of Poland in 1939, European countries fell like dominos ...

If you were born on Dec. 7, 1941, you’re 73 years old today. Imagine, then, if you had been an 18, 19 or 20-year-old witnessing the carnage of the Pearl Harbor attack firsthand. You’d be 91, 92 or 93.

With a divisive presidential election still fresh in people's minds, organizers of a rally Saturday in downtown Elmira hope to spread a message of hope and unity. The Elmira-Corning Branch of the ...

“Yesterday, Dec. 7, 1941 — a date which will live in infamy — the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.” So spoke President ...