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  • Cannon remembers Pearl Harbor

    Airman 1st Class Gage Daniel|Updated Dec 8, 2018

    CANNON AIR FORCE BASE — Base Honor Guardsmen on Friday raised the American flag at 10:48 a.m., at the wing building. This event happened exactly 77 years from the minute when Imperial Japanese aircraft descended upon the naval base at Pearl Harbor and began a surprise attack. The ceremony was in remembrance of those who gave the ultimate sacrifice for their country. On Dec. 7, 1941, at 7:43 a.m., the first of two waves of hundreds of Japanese planes crashed into the base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. They managed to destroy and d...