At the time, it took a little while for “breaking news” to encircle the globe. Unsurprisingly, though, Hawaii addressed it in a timely fashion, in an “extra” edition of the Honolulu Star Bulletin, on Monday, December 7 itself:
The sub-heading reads, “SIX KNOWN DEAD.” There would turn out to be more than 2,300 dead U.S. sailors and Marines, almost a thousand of whom are entombed forever on the sunken USS Arizona.
A day later, while the dust was still settling, President Franklin Roosevelt addressed both Houses of Congress: and declared war on the Empire of Japan:
And eighty-three years later, a 100-year old survivor of the day (there are believed to be only 16 still living) remembers:
Bless.
