Sunday is the 73rd anniversary of “a date which will live in infamy,” the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.

The three veterans service organizations (American Legion Post 58, AMVETS Post 7 and VFW Post 7507) in Fountain Hills will commemorate that day with a ceremony at the town’s Veterans Memorial on the south side of Fountain Park at 11 a.m.

I invite everyone to come to the park and participate in this ceremony that marks the beginning or WW II for the Unites States.

Although Winston Churchill was speaking about British service members when in August 1940 he made the famous statement “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few,” the same can easily be said of all service members who served during WW II. We have a number of WW II veterans living in Fountain Hills. I expect many of them will be at the ceremony.

At Sunday’s commemorative ceremony, the guest speaker will be former VFW Post Commander Ralph Truax, who served as a Sailor in World War II and then later as a Marine in Korea. What a story he could tell.

If not in church at 11 a.m., I encourage everyone to come to the ceremony and thank Ralph and all the other WW II veterans for their service. It is not for nothing that Tom Brokaw called them “the Greatest Generation.”