NORCROSS, Ga. - It was a day of infamy they don't remember. Sixth-graders in Jacob Cole's social studies class relived the terror of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks this week in a lesson intended to help them understand what the death of Osama bin Laden means.
On the night of Dec. 6, 1941, George "June" Williams slept on the deck of the USS Maryland as cool Hawaiian breezes washed over him and nearly 1,000 other crewmen. He awoke before 7 a.m. the next day, folded up his cot and took it below decks to store it. About the same time, across Pearl Harbor at Hickam Field, Harry Guilliams finished breakfast and walked outside in the morning sun. It was Sunday, mostly an off day for Guilliams' automatic weapons battalion.
By Mark Craig Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
THE IMAGE is a dark and iconic one: a battleship, the USS Arizona, leaning into the sea, smoke billowing from its decks. In its black-and-white starkness, the photograph is a record of devastation wrought on Dec. 7, 1941, during a surprise attack on U.S. naval installations in the Pacific by aircraft from the empire of Japan. Today, we mark the 70th anniversary of that day, a day that changed America and President Franklin D. Roosevelt described as "a date which will live in infamy.
NOT in my wildest imaginations could I have envisioned what life would be like 10 years after the Twin Towers collapsed in the distance from my office window. In those brutally raw hours of fear, confusion and uncertainty that day, we at The Record focused only on the now and the immediate future.
Wednesday marks the 70th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, which led to America's entry into World War II. The "date which will live in infamy" has served as the backdrop for several TV shows and miniseries. Take these five: *"The Time Element" (Dec. 11, 1958): Rod Serling wrote this teleplay about a psychoanalyst's patient (William Bendix) who complains of a recurring dream in which he imagines waking up in Honolulu prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Serling had intended to use it as the pilot episode for his new series "The Twilight Zone," but it instead aired on "Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse." "TZ" aficionados still regard it as that show's true pilot.
Dubuque, long one of the bastions of Midwest isolationism, appeared united Monday behind the commander-in-chief as World War II engulfed the United States. - Dubuque Telegraph Herald, Dec. 8, 1941
CHICAGO We're still here as I'm writing this, stranded for a few extra days because the CNN weather map yesterday projected some scary red tornado splotches scattered along the Capitol Limited tracks we take to Pittsburgh.
It was one of the few tackles Harry Colon didn't make on Oct. 6, 1990, but Missouri's senior safety had a clear view of the historic play as it unfolded before him on Faurot Field. AP file photo
Former detainees at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay have said they were "water-boarded"-strapped to a board, their faces covered with cellophane, while water was poured on them-which simulates the sensation of drowning. The scene-setting threads that run through her paragraphs-the sound of Muslim prayer calls that come on the loudspeakers five times a day, the Kit Kat bar Rashid receives from a guard-are vivid, while descriptions of his physical state are dense with visceral detail.
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