More Than Eight Decades Later, Pearl Harbor Survivor Harry Chandler’s Memories Endure

On this day in 1941, the imperial Japanese launched an assault on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, that would propel our nation into World War II. Eighty-three years later, a survivor of the “date which will live in infamy” remembered how a tropical paradise became a hellish inferno. And now as we mark the 84th anniversary, we reflect on his memories.

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Harry Chandler’s comments were published in the Palm Beach Post last year, a little less than a year before he passed away at over 102 years of age. While Chandler did not survive to see the anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack one more time, his memories are as sobering and relevant today as when he shared them. We must never forget our

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