Pearl Harbor remembered at moving Brooklyn Borough Hall ceremony
More than a dozen WWII vets proudly attend
In a Borough Hall ceremony that brought tears to many eyes, Brooklyn World War II veterans, including Pearl Harbor survivors, commemorated on Monday the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
On that date “which will live in infamy,” 2,403 U.S. citizens were killed and more than a thousand injured, and the U.S. was launched into World War II.
Roughly 18 WWII vets, many well into their 90s, attended the ceremony. Among those honored were Rev. James Blakely, a WWII veteran and Pearl Harbor survivor, who received a Special Service Award. Blakely enlisted in 1939 and served aboard the St. Louis.