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it is the practice to look back on this date, to the how and why of the event itself and to the what of all the years and changes since. But as with this monument in the Presidio, you can also just look around to see much of

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it. A starting point might be the 161 and 1/2 acres in San Bruno. Or you find all too many reminders. A lot of people caught up in the horror that began that sunday morning are here and there have been up to this March, more than 83,000

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white markers placed on these hills. Some from the 3600 and 40 casualties at Pearl Harbor 25 years ago Today, when the Golden Gate National Cemetery was established, It was felt that 161.5 acres would provide adequate grave space for the bay area's military dead for nearly a

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century. It will not. The cemetery was established in 1938. There are other kinds of graveyards around the bay that trace their origins back to the dive bombers that worked over Hickam field, ford island wheeler field, scofield barracks and battleship row inactive fleet is the term for

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them once a vital part of the force, partially built, repaired, outfitted and shipped out of the bay area, now replaced by newer and faster and better machinery and stored near the spot where they're building nuclear submarines. Now, they are a not particularly pretty standing reminder of

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the need that created them. The need created on December seven At lands in another standing reminder of the kind of thing that started 25 years ago today with notations of the names and number of men who died around this particular piece of metal, it is what

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is left of the bridge of the USs san Francisco. Following a battle off Guadalcanal less than a year after many of her sister ships went down within sight of Diamond Head without being able to fire a shot. 25 years is a long time. World War II

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is several wars ago now and we're in the process of supplying a new war in the Pacific where a lot of American soldiers and marines are wearing shoes marked made in Japan and most of the people living in the United States today had not even been

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born by that day, but no single event, no single day touched the lives of every american so drastically and so basically including the unborn, As did the attack on US military forces at Pearl Harbor, December seven 1941. This is Pat O'brien reporting