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Article: Office of the Press Secretary -- National Pearl Harbor emembrance Day, 2000.
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- December 7, 2000
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M2 PRESSWIRE-7 December 2000-THE WHITE HOUSE: Office of the Press Secretary -- National Pearl Harbor emembrance Day, 2000 (C)1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
RDATE:06122000
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
While the bitter winds of war raged across much of the world on the morning of December 7, 1941, the United States was still at peace. At Pearl Harbor, the vessels of the U.S. Pacific Fleet lay tranquil in the Sunday silence. Then, at 7:55 a.m., that silence was shattered by the sound of falling bombs and the rattle of machine-gun fire, as the war came home to America.
In making such a devastating preemptive strike, the ...