Although I was not even alive when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, I will never forget it. Sometimes I’ll change my Facebook profile picture to recognize the anniversary and sometimes I make a blog post, such as this one, to note the day. Even when I do neither, I still remember. Unfortunately, I don’t always remember in time to actively commemorate it even when I intend to. Such was the case this year.

I am aware of only two Pearl Harbor Remembrance events in the area. One takes place in New Richmond, Ohio, on the Sunday preceding the anniversary. It was already past before I realized it. The other takes place on the actual anniversary in West Chester Township’s Brookside Cemetery. I went but didn’t make my decision until about the time it was starting. All ceremonies were over by the time I arrived, but I did get the photos at left and at the beginning of the article there.

I attended both of these events in 2017 as described in a blog post here. That post included some photos from my visit to Pearl Harbor that had occurred earlier in the year. Just over a year after that visit, structural problems were detected in the Arizona Memorial and it was closed. It remained closed through the 2018 anniversary of the attack but reopened on September 1 of this year.