USS Arizona Pearl Harbor Attack,
7 December 1941
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval
Historical Center
 REMEMBER
PEARL HARBOR: Dec. 7, 1941 By June Allen - It was Sunday
morning, Dec. 7, 1941. At 7:55 a.m. Hawaii time, Japanese Imperial
forces launched a surprise air attack on the U.S. Navy's fleet
moored at Pearl Harbor and the nearby Army installation. Nineteen
ships were sunk or damaged, crippling the U.S. fleet. And in
a period of only a few hours, 2,300 Americans were left dead.
One of those was Navy Ensign
Irvin Thompson, 24, of Ketchikan. He was lost in the sinking
of the battleship Oklahoma, Alaska's first serviceman casualty
of World War II. In his honor, flags would fly at half-mast throughout
Alaska Dec. 21, by proclamation of Territorial Governor Ernest
Gruening. - Read
the rest of this story by June Allen....
Tuesday - December 07, 2004
Pearl Harbor: State
Flags to be Lowered for Pearl Harbor Remembrance - Alaska
Governor Frank H. Murkowski has proclaimed Tuesday as Pearl Harbor
Remembrance Day in Alaska, and ordered state flags to be lowered
to half-staff to commemorate the attack on Dec. 7, 1941 and to
honor the individuals who died as a result of that attack. -
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Tuesday - December 07, 2004
Pearl Harbor: On
anniversary, test your Pearl Harbor knowledge by Lisa Hoffman
- On another anniversary of that infamous day, America's personal
connection to the Pearl Harbor attack is receding farther and
farther into history. - More...
Tuesday - December 07, 2004
Science: Too
few z's may result in too many pounds by Lee Bowman - More
evidence has surfaced to explain why not getting enough sleep
makes us hungry and more likely to gain weight.
Two new studies, published
Monday and Tuesday, show that loss of sleep boosts levels of
a hormone that tells us we're hungry, while dropping levels of
a hormone that signals the body that we're full and should stop
eating.
"Sleep is a major regulator
of these two hormones," said Eve Van Cauter, a professor
of medicine at the University of Chicago and lead author of one
of the studies, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
- More...
Tuesday - December 07, 2004
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