I attended a Pearl Harbor 75th anniversary event on Monday. The Cadman Park Conservancy organized the event, which was held at Brooklyn Borough Hall. There were eighteen WW2 veterans in attendance, one of whom was a Pearl Harbor survivor. Having the event in Brooklyn was poignant, being that ships such as the Arizona were built just a few miles away at the Navy Yard. I wrote five years ago about the Pearl Harbor anniversary and so won’t do so again here. I do want to share a few images from the day. There is only one 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Camera crews gathered.
ROTC teams from two high schools provided color guards.
An a cappella trio doing period songs also performed.
Brooklyn Borough Historian Ron Schweiger spoke about life in the borough as it was in 1941.
The commemoration had several fine speakers besides Ron. Appropriately, the veterans themselves were always the focus.
After the speeches, wreath laying, songs, and color presentations, film crews moved in to interview the men.
The Strawfoot 