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Remembering Pearl Harbor: 70 years

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By Michelle Malkin  •  December 7, 2011 10:10 AM

Never forget:

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A newsreel of the Day of Infamy:

Five memorials will be held today for “servicemen who lived through the assault and want their remains placed in Pearl Harbor out of pride and affinity for those they left behind.”

Here’s the official White House statement on this solemn occasion.

An old salt remembers:

Ninety-one-year-old Constantine Socrates Savalas stepped on the stage at Los Angeles Valley College’s music recital hall and surveyed the younger faces before him.

“I stand before you as a witness to the destruction of ships and destroyers at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941,” said Savalas, briefly describing the surprise attack by the Japanese that killed 2,459 Americans and drew this country into World War II.

He paused, then sang in a strong baritone:

“There’s a grief that can’t be spoken.

There’s a pain goes on and on.

Empty chairs at empty tables.

Now my friends are dead and gone.”

His rendition of the tune from the musical “Les Miserables” is something of a tradition at the campus’ December music performance workshop concerts.

Savalas, brother of the late actor Telly Savalas, loves to sing and has attended the workshops for 18 years. He always chooses “Empty Chairs at Empty Tables” at the annual performance – his personal tribute to the people who died 70 years ago Wednesday in the event that devastated the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Fleet.

God bless our veterans and their families.

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How the Obama daughters’ private school is marking the day: Asian food feast.

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