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Pearl Harbor Day Marked With Half-Staff Flags as Hawaii Ceremony Proceeds Without Survivors

With survivors absent in Hawaii, organizers highlighted oral histories alongside livestreamed tributes.

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FILE - Pearl Harbor survivor Archie Odom, of Federal Way, Wash., salutes during a moment of silence in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Dec. 7, 1991, in remembrance of those killed during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Odom was a signalman on the bridge of the USS West Virginia when the Japanese attacked. (AP Photo/John Gaps III, File)
FILE - From left to right, Pearl Harbor survivors Harry Chandler, Ken Stevens, Herb Elfring and Ira "Ike" Schab sit during the 82nd Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day ceremony Dec. 7, 2023, at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Mengshin Lin, File)

Overview

  • U.S. flags were flown at half-staff from sunrise to sunset under a 1994 congressional directive, reinforced by presidential and state proclamations.
  • The Pearl Harbor National Memorial ceremony began at 7:55 a.m. with a moment of silence, wreath-laying and a flyover, and for the first time in recent memory no survivors attended.
  • President Donald Trump urged Americans to observe the day and encouraged federal agencies and others to lower the flag in honor of those lost.
  • Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont ordered half-staff on public buildings, aligning state observances with federal guidance.
  • Museums and communities held and streamed commemorations nationwide, including deck and river wreath-layings at New York’s Intrepid Museum, a USS Yorktown ceremony in South Carolina and a memorial event in Norco, California.