Open Thread: 69 Years Since the Bombing of Pearl Harbor

December 7th, 2010 8:47 AM

Today marks the anniversary of "a day that will live in infamy," as President Franklin Roosevelt famously dubbed it. The attack on Pearl Harbor sparked U.S. involvement in World War II, and led to a brutal American campaign against Japan that ended with the only use of an atomic weapon in history.

But today we remember the 2,459 Americans who were killed in the attack on December 7, 1941. Below the fold are a couple videos to honor the occasion.