U.S. Sailors aboard the guided missile cruiser USS Lake Erie salute as they pass the USS Arizona Memorial during a ceremony commemorating the 68th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Dec. 7, 2009. The morning of Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese bombers staged a surprise attack on U.S. military forces in Hawaii. The day after the attack, before a joint session of Congress, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked for a declaration of war against Japan and the U.S. officially entered World War II.
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