Today is the 66th anniversary of something so terrible most of us cannot even imagine it.
Early on a calm, beautiful Sunday morning at a naval base, our country’s fleet was attacked without warning by hundreds of airplanes launched from aircraft carriers belonging to another country, Japan.
It was a hellish conflagration. Thousands of people died.

This happened in a place called Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Hawaii was a U.S. possession at the time. It did not become a state until 18 years later.

More than a thousand brave U.S. servicemen died on one ship alone, the U.S.S. Arizona. Many were entombed in that ship when it sank.

Today, small drops of oil still leak from the ship, which was never raised.

The attack brought America into World War II.

Sometime today, Dec. 7, stop by Lake Isabella Park where some very rare remnants of the Arizona are on display and pay tribute to everyone who died on that ship and other locations in Pearl Harbor that Sunday morning in 1941.