earle peterson

Letter: A Pearl Harbor Day plea To the Editor: I write this on December 7, Pearl Harbor Day for those of us who were old enough to recall the events of that Sunday in 1941, a “day of infamy” as FDR proclaimed to Congress and the world. A joint session of Congress unanimously declared war the next day. America had entered World War II and committed itself to a total wartime footing. Young and not-so-young men stretched in long lines…