Serving the High Plains
Serving the High Plains
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Eighty years ago, on Dec. 7, 1941, our parents and grandparents were shaken out of the humdrum of daily living — and the trajectory of their lives forever changed — by news that Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, home to America’s Pacific Fleet and considered a forward deterrent to Japanese attack, had itself come under murderous fire in a surprise Japanese assault. Other U.S. military installations on the island of Oahu and nearby were also hit that morning, about 8 a.m. Hawaii time, 1 p.m. at the White House, where President Franklin D. Roosevelt was j...