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Opinion: Pearl Harbor reminds us of sacrifice
Pearl Harbor
A small boat rescues a USS West Virginia crew member from the water after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on Dec. 7, 1941 during World War II. The mast of the USS Tennessee is beyond the burning West Virginia. - photo by Associated Press
I was born in January of 1941, when I was old enough my mother told me that when Pearl Harbor was attacked, a bunch of people took all their “made in Japan” items to a vacant lot in Detroit, Michigan, and set them on fire. It burned for days.