OT: Remembering Pearl Harbor 70 Years Ago Today

On the morning of 12/7/41, men sleeping off a Christmas party the night before were awakened by Japanese planes shortly before 8:00 a.m.. They barely had time to scramble to defenses before the planes unloaded bombs all over the Naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, HI. The air and sea attack killed just over 2400 people and injured 1282.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor

Four battleships were sunk, most notably the USS Arizona, which sustained the greatest loss of life:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Arizona_(BB-39)

The little-told Niihau Incident on 12/7/41 that had wider ramifications during the war and the heroism of Ben Kanahele, a man we'd call in our time a bad@ss:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niihau_Incident