![]() ![]() 7 will mark the 75th anniversary of the attack. Pearl Harbor survivors Clark Simmons of Brooklyn, N.Y., and Aaron Chabin of Bayside, N.Y., look at the water after throwing a wreath into the Hudson River during a 2015 ceremony at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York marking the 74th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. But we have to be aware that not everyone wants to be our friend.” We want to be friends, right? We have to have friends all over the world. To use all sorts of opportunities for diplomacy, opportunities for peaceful engagement, to use all those opportunities ahead of time to engage with populations of other countries, but to be ever vigilant. The lesson to be learned from Pearl Harbor, he said, is “always vigilance, to be vigilant. Pearl Harbor has made an amazing impact on my life.” It was probably the seeds that were planted in my heart as I discerned my vocation to the priesthood. “I vividly remember as a young kid - fourth-, fifth-, sixth-grade - going to the (USS) Arizona Memorial. ![]() “One was more obviously targeted toward the civilian population, one toward the military population,” the priest added, “but both certainly were defining moments in our country.”Īs a child, young Daniel Mode lived at Pearl Harbor for four years while his father was on duty in the Navy. “They’re both cataclysmic events that galvanized our country,” he said. Speaking in a telephone interview from the Pentagon, where he works for the chief of chaplains, Father Mode said he can see a parallel between Pearl Harbor and the 9/11 terror attacks. “It brought our country together to fight a common threat.” It (the attack) changed the tenor, and the president’s resolve, Father Mode told Catholic News Service. We were basically a neutral country, trying not to get engaged in it. “Before that, we were debating whether to get involved with World War II or not. 7, 1941, attack neared, Father Daniel Mode detailed the effect of the Japanese attack on the Hawaiian outpost. WASHINGTON (CNS) - A Catholic military chaplain and historian says the attack on Pearl Harbor, even 75 years later, continues to rivet the attention of Americans because it is “such a powerful event.”Īs the anniversary of the Dec.
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