{"id":27826,"date":"2011-12-07T07:05:23","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T11:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=27826"},"modified":"2011-12-07T07:07:15","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T11:07:15","slug":"december-7th-1941","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27826","title":{"rendered":"December 7th, 1941"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VnlLRmy3BI0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/LA-Times-Pearl-Harbor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/LA-Times-Pearl-Harbor.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"LA Times Pearl Harbor\" width=\"364\" height=\"503\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-27827\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/LA-Times-Pearl-Harbor.jpg 364w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/LA-Times-Pearl-Harbor-217x300.jpg 217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 364px) 100vw, 364px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/pearl-harbor-attacked-a-witness-remembers-70-years-later\/2011\/12\/06\/gIQAvkBXaO_story.html?hpid=z2\">Washington Post<\/a>, memories are still strong 70 years later;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Around 8 a.m. on Dec. 7, 1941, Army Private Francis Stueve sat down to breakfast with the rest of the 89th Field Artillery battalion, stationed at Pearl Harbor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs quiet a day as you\u2019ve ever seen,\u201d Stueve remembers now. \u201cBeautiful sunshine, nothing going on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly, not far from his seat in the dining hall: bang, bang, bang.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomebody says, \u2018It\u2019s the Chinese New Year,\u2019 \u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>But then, a bullet broke through the glass window of the dining hall. Another flew just past Stueve and knocked the butter dish off the table.<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s official declaration of war would come a day later, after the loss of 160 aircraft, 12 ships and 2,300 Americans, according to the Library of Congress \u2014 70 years ago on Wednesday. Stueve, now 94, can describe his experience as if it were happening now:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Washington Post, memories are still strong 70 years later; Around 8 a.m. on Dec. &hellip; <a title=\"December 7th, 1941\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27826\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">December 7th, 1941<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}