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On Dec. 7, 1941, a quiet Sunday morning in Hawaii was shattered by one of the most devastating surprise attacks in American history. Japanese forces struck the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, killing more than 2,400 Americans and plunging the United States into World War II. President Franklin D. Roosevelt called it “a date which will live in infamy,” and indeed, Pearl Harbor Day remains one of the most solemn commemorations in our nation’s calendar.

Yet the story of Pearl Harbor extends far beyond that tragic morning. It encompasses the remarkable resilience of survivors, the painstaking work o

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