Veterans

Was it an irrational act? Hardly. Pearl Harbor merely gave him the excuse he had long been seeking.

Canceled by President Grover Cleveland. Restored by Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt — the Army-Navy football game is in its 135th year.

As survivors fade, their descendants and the public are increasingly turning to other ways of learning about the bombing.

Even before the first Japanese bomb fell, the HA-19 and four other Type A midget submarines were meant to deal the first blow to the “sleeping giant.”

Philip M. Rasmussen was one of the few American pilots to get into the air in the skies on Dec. 7, 1941. He was still in his pajamas.

Using simple observation, a Japanese spy in Pearl Harbor collected crucial information. His full story, however, remains hidden.

While the bald eagle is a national emblem, the 101st’s screaming eagle insignia pays homage to a genuine war bird from the Civil War.

In 1944, a few hundred U.S.-born Japanese Americans defied their draft orders, citing the constitutional rights of the interned Nisei.