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Article: Proclamation 7385-National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, 2000.(Brief Article)
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- Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents
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- December 11, 2000
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December 6, 2000
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 130 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 forces of Imperial Japan sought to weaken our national spirit and cripple our military might. But our attackers would soon learn that ...