RI flags fly at half-staff for National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day

President Trump has ordered flags to be flown at half-staff across the United States in honor of National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.

Celebrated on Dec. 7 each year, National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day remembers the 1941 attack at the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, which began the United States' involvement in World War II. The surprise attack from the Japanese military resulted in the deaths of thousands of service members and civilians, as well as over a thousand injuries.

In memory of the lives lost during the attack on Pearl Harbor, the flag of the United States at all public buildings and grounds across the country and its territories – including in Rhode Island – will fly at half-staff from sunrise to sunset on Sunday, Dec. 7.

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