US Remembers Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor

Sunday is the 73rd anniversary of the sneak Japanese attack on the U.S. Navy base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, but the day now is marked with little fanfare. In 1941, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt declared the December 7 attack as "a date which will live in infamy," with the U.S. declaring war on Japan a day later and entering World War II. More than 2,400 American sailors and others were killed in the attack on what is now a U.S. island state in the middle of the Pacific...

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