Image: President Gerald R. Ford Delivering Remarks at a Wreath Laying Ceremony at the USS Arizona Me
Image: President Gerald R. Ford Delivering Remarks at a Wreath Laying Ceremony at the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 12/7/1975.Pearl Harbor Remembrance DayPresident Ford attended a memorial ceremony held at the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1975. Although he was the third President to visit the Memorial, he was the first to do so on the anniversary of the attack.The ceremony included the presentation of floral wreaths by 37 veterans and civic organizations. Before placing his own wreath President Ford delivered remarks about the significance of December 7, 1941, and the memorial:We who remember Pearl Harbor will always remember. For us it is a moment etched in time, a moment of shock and mixed feelings and particularly disbelief, a moment of shame and a moment of sorrow, of anguish and of anger, an end to irresolutions, a summons to action, the start of a total commitment that comes but rarely to men and to nations. Whoever watched the Pacific churned by winds of wars comes to this hallowed place with feelings overcoming words. Our shipmates who rest in honor here, our comrades in arms who sleep beneath the waves and on the islands that surround us need no eulogy beyond the eternal gratitude of the land that they loved. -- source link
#december 7#pearlharbor#president ford