Pearl Harbor remembered at ceremony

Pearl Harbor remembered at ceremony

CANFIELD — The current generation needs to do a better job of remembering Dec. 7, 1941, state Sen. John Boccieri said of the day President Franklin D. Roosevelt said would “live in infamy.”

“I pledge to do my best, as an Air Force Reserve officer and member of the Ohio Senate, to make sure we remember,” Boccieri said at a memorial ceremony today to mark the 66th anniversary of the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.

The ceremony, hosted by AMVETS Post 44, was conducted at the Mahoning County Veterans Memorial Building at the Canfield Fairgrounds.

For some 50 years, AMVETS has used this date to remember all those who have and are serving in the Armed Forces, said John W. Twohig, chairman of the event.

The attack wiped out much of the United States fleet, killed nearly 2,400 Navy, Marine Corps and Army personnel, and wounded hundreds more. The attack also drew the United States into World War II.

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