What is Pearl Harbor Day? At a. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor. A second wave of stretched the attack out for two hours, killing 2, Americans and wounding another 1, The attack also destroyed U. We should also remember this date as a symbol of American grit and resilience. Why has America maintained its deep engagement overseas? Why have its leaders still not seen fit to return U. One reason is that the U.
Another explanation is that successive presidents have concurred with FDR that national security cannot be divorced from international security.
For 76 years, such arguments for U. Today, however, they are increasingly falling upon deaf ears. President-elect Donald Trump puts little stock in the open international economy, accusing foreign entities of cheating American workers.
He has promised to renegotiate trade deals and punish businesses for investing overseas. Trump purports to represent not those who have become rich from global capitalism, but those whose livelihoods have been lost to the vicissitudes of foreign competition. Nor does Trump see the international environment as posing many bona fide security threats.
Trump has promised to forge friendly relations with Russia, for example, and hopes to encourage Moscow to shoulder the burden of defeating the Islamic State. He does not seem to lose sleep over the possibility of conflict with China, baiting the Beijing government over Twitter.
Trump has questioned cornerstones of U. For better or worse, the post-Pearl Harbor world has been one in which the U. But there was never anything inevitable or immovable about this internationalist consensus.
Located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, Hawaii is very important to the United States, even in peacetime. The eight islands together have 11 military bases, the most famous, of course, being Pearl Harbor. The biggest ships in the Navy are able to dock at the base. Those ships measure up to feet in length and weigh as much as 15, tons. With so many military members and others serving on the base, a large housing area is important.
The base is home to over 18, service members. It serves 24, family members each year with schools, hospitals, stores, and recreational opportunities. The military makes sure to care for its service members and their families as they make sacrifices that safeguard freedoms for all Americans.
In addition to those living and working at Pearl Harbor, 2 million visitors come to see the famous memorials each year. Some come to pay their respects to relatives and other service members who died during the attack.
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