Pearl Harbor

In these videos, South Dakota veterans who were in Hawaiʻi on the day of infamy talk about their experiences.

I met Chris 20 years ago. His son Rick had called the radio station and set me up to participate in a celebrity pheasant hunt near Yankton.

76 years ago today Pearl Harbor in Hawaii was attacked by Japan, bringing the United States into World War II. Ten years ago I was there.

It was on August 23 of 1994 that the United States Congress designated December 7 of each year as National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.

When my wife and I chose to get married on Friday September 7, 2007 I had no idea that it would inadvertently lead us to stand in a sacred place on an equally sacred day.