Jack Fedor led a flyover with a missing man formation over those assembled at the Fountain Hills Veterans Memorial to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Veterans organizations of Fountain Hills welcomed about 100 citizens to mark the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor last Wednesday, Dec. 7.
Remembering that at the time of the attack President Franklin D. Roosevelt called December 7 “a date which will live in infamy, John Schwab, Commander American Legion Post #58 in Fountain Hills called upon those attending to honor those who gave their lives, and be thankful for those who went on to fight for freedom.
“Pearl Harbor was the birth of our ‘Greatest Generation’,” Schwab said.
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Pearl Harbor Remembrance Ceremony in FH
Jack Fedor led a flyover with a missing man formation over those assembled at the Fountain Hills Veterans Memorial to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Veterans organizations of Fountain Hills welcomed about 100 citizens to mark the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor last Wednesday, Dec. 7.
Remembering that at the time of the attack President Franklin D. Roosevelt called December 7 “a date which will live in infamy, John Schwab, Commander American Legion Post #58 in Fountain Hills called upon those attending to honor those who gave their lives, and be thankful for those who went on to fight for freedom.
“Pearl Harbor was the birth of our ‘Greatest Generation’,” Schwab said.
VFW Post #7507 Commander Carl Krawczyk delivered a keynote address that took the audience back to Oahu in the Hawaiian Islands on Dec. 7, 1941.
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