CREST HAVEN – A resolution freeholders passed Tue., Nov. 22 at the urging of Freeholder Gerald Thornton, will set aside Dec. 7 to recall the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack.
“The law was changed, and flags are authorized to fly half-staff that day,” said Thornton. “That is really important.”
He continued that the attack on Pearl Harbor claimed the lives of some 2,000 service members and 1,000 were wounded. Although President Franklin D. Roosevelt told the nation the day would live in infamy, “The day goes by without people remembering,” said Thornton.
World War II made a terrible impact on this nation and the world,” Thornton said. “They were the greatest generation. If they hadn’t stepped up, and all the members of the military, this would not be the same world,” he added.
Congress adopted a law on Aug. 23, 1994 that designated Dec. 7 as “National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.”
The local resolution directs that all flags flown over buildings under county jurisdiction will fly at half-staff.
Copies of the resolution were sent to the governor and each of the county’s 16 municipalities.
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