WATCH: Remembering Pearl Harbor Message as Biden Meets with Putin

There aren’t very many U.S. veterans still alive who were there 80 years ago today on the peaceful Sunday morning of December 7th, 1941.

The day the U.S. Navy Base at Pearl Harbor was suddenly attacked by hundreds of Japanese planes that bombed American service members and civilians. More than 24-hundred people were killed, nearly half of them Marines and sailors aboard the USS Arizona.

Only a few dozen Pearl Harbor survivors are taking part in a somber ceremony of remembrance at the Naval base today, to remember that day that catapulted the U.S. into World War II that left hundreds of thousands of American soldiers dead and tens of millions of people around the world, mostly civilians, in Asia, Europe and Russia.

Then President Franklin Roosevelt called December 7th, 1941, a date that will live in infamy.” For decades, Americans who were there and others who remember waking up to the news, had hoped an attack on American like that would never happen again. But on September 11th of 2001, it did, not with war planes, but commercial planes flown by Islamic terrorists that killed even more people than at Pearl Harbor.

It may only be coincidence that 80 years to the day after Pearl Harbor, today the President of the United States is meeting with the President of Russia. It would be good for0 Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin to take a moment to reflect on the theme of this year’s Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, “the long and difficult road to peace.”

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