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The day after Pearl Harbor, the FBI rolled in and arrested them all
My teen heartthrob was Josh Hartnett, after I saw Pearl Harbor had his poster and everything!
I was watching a football game at Comiskey Park on Dec. 7, 1941, when the game was interrupted by an announcement that the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and President Franklin Roosevelt declared an act of warMore quotes »
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Sermons and Orations Relating to 2009 Presidential Inauguration Sought
Over many decades, the American Folklife Center (AFC) at the Library of Congress has documented everyday citizens’ reactions to major historic events in our collective American experience. For instance, man-on-the-street interviews were recorded on the d 10:50 AM from East Chicago Public Library Read more »
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Perkasie's Menlo Park remembered for more than a century of fun
Jerry Souder remembers working as a pin setter at Menlo Park in 1941 and someone coming in saying Pearl Harbor had been bombed. The organizers of “Memories of Menlo Park,” which will be on display from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, June 9 and 10, a 5/30/12 from Montgomery Media Read more »
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Thursday's letters to the editor
My dad, a 30-year Navy veteran, also was a Pearl Harbor survivor, stationed aboard the USS Vestal. He passed away several years ago, but right up to his death he remembered the names of his shipmates, both those who lost their lives at Pearl Harbor and t 2:32 AM from The News-Press Read more »
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Cyber Attack Talk May Outpace The Actual Threat
The U.S. defense secretary has warned of a cyber-Pearl Harbor. The national intelligence director ranks cyber threats just behind terrorism and weapons of mass destruction on his list of top U.S. threats. But does the actual threat match those words? Des from U.S. News & World Report Read more »
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Letters to the Editor
I have recently dicovered that Donald Jay Rickles turned 86 on May 8. He is a real funny comic better known as Don Rickles. During his early years he lived in Jackson Heights. This has brought back memories and my one time experience with Don Rickles on from The Queens Gazette Read more »
