Tribute to a fallen solider.
Today marks the day that President Roosevelt said would live in infamy, the day the Japanese Navy attacked Pearl Harbor: December 7, 1941.
As a friend of mine might say, “What were they thinking?”
Prior to that surprise attack, many in America were disinterested in engaging in what they believed to be a foreign war. But after that fateful day when 2,403 Americans were killed and 1,178 others were wounded, plus much of the American fleet in the Pacific was sunk or damaged, public opinion in America changed and America’s engagement in World War II was never again seriously questioned.
So many made the ultimate sacrifice in the war. Below is the story of a twenty-three-year-old gunner named Loyce Edward Deen who was killed during the Battle of Manila Bay on November 5th, 1944.
