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Pearl Harbor survivors gather in Des Plaines | |
December 08, 2014 Ed Block's face filled with emotion Sunday as he sat in a wheelchair at Oakton Place in Des Plaines. During ceremonies commemorating another Sunday in 1941, one President Franklin D. Roosevelt, called a "date which will live in infamy," Block was a living reminder not only of what happened that day in Pearl Harbor, but of the nearly four-year struggle that followed it. Source: http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20141207/news/141208668/ |