{"id":2831,"date":"2015-12-03T10:35:16","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T15:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gettysburgflag.com\/blog\/?p=2831"},"modified":"2024-06-28T12:31:30","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T16:31:30","slug":"remembering-pearl-harbor-flags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gettysburgflag.com\/blog\/remembering-pearl-harbor-flags\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Pearl Harbor with flags"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"This<\/a>
This 1942 poster honored Pearl Harbor Day<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One year after the December 7, 1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that launched the U.S. into World War II, Americans commemorated the \u201cday of infamy\u201d with coast-to-coast flags.<\/p>\n

In Boston, for example, the Bunker Hill Boys Club observed \u201cone minute of silence\u2026in respect of the service men who gave their lives\u201d a year earlier. The ceremony included the playing of \u201cTaps\u201d as a service flag was lifted. Service flags<\/a>\u00a0were banners displaying stars for family members in the military.<\/p>\n

What happened in Boston was echoed at the Temple Baptist Church in Washington, D.C., which remembered Pearl Harbor with prayers, the singing of patriotic songs and the dedication of a service flag<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Chicago<\/a>
Chicago children wave flags during a flag dedication ceremony in 1942. (Library of Congress)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Memorial services were also held in the Midwest. For example, ceremonies in Cleveland, Ohio, took several forms, reported The Plain Dealer, including promises of \u201cpeak production\u201d of armaments, Civil Air Patrol planes \u201cbombing\u201d the city with \u201cleaflets urging purchase of [war] bonds\u201d and a suburban neighborhood that raised an American flag<\/a> while children marched around the block.<\/p>\n

Farther west, in Boise, Idaho, the daily paper told how employees at an air field \u201care strutting proudly these days, and the reason is flying from the top of the depot building.\u201d Waving there was a \u201cmerit flag\u201d that marked the extraordinary efforts of the workers to excel their war production goals.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>
A WWII service flag<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Southern states followed suit. In Raleigh, North Carolina, men from the state college who had been \u201ckilled or captured since the war started a year ago\u201d were remembered at the college. \u201cThe flag was lowered\u201d to half-staff, the article noted, \u201cand a bugler sounded Taps.\u201d<\/p>\n

In High Point, N.C., a Pearl Harbor service was hosted by another local college. The campus bell chimed at 7 a.m., marking the approximate time the 1941 attack started, and the names of students now in the service were recited. As a bugle played \u201cTaps,\u201d the audience recited the pledge to the American flag.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>
A sailor looks at a WWII service flag. (Library of Congress)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Charleston Evening Post in South Carolina covered a \u201cRemember Pearl Harbor Program\u201d at a local school. There, \u201cthe opening of the program included a prayer, pledge to the flag and the singing of \u2018America.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The same spirit reached to the West Coast. In San Diego, workers at the naval base bought thousands of dollars of war bonds. Their generosity was honored with the presentation of a War Bond Flag, \u201cthe first of its kind to be awarded to a west coast naval establishment,\u201d said The San Diego Union.<\/p>\n

\"American<\/a>
American flag flies in 1942. (Library of Congress)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Perhaps the most stirring event occurred in California when a group of 14 Boy Scouts \u201cstood off a milling mob which\u2026tried to seize the American flag in the midst of a\u2026riot.\u201d When one rioter tried to bring down Old Glory, the Scouts \u201csurrounded the flagpole<\/a>\u201d and brandished stones to defend the banner. \u201cAnd the flag was not hauled down.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Members<\/a>
Members of the Manzanar American Legion and Boy Scouts honor the American flag on Memorial Day 1942. (Library of Congress)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What made that action special \u2013 and ironic \u2013 is that the boys who defended the flag were Japanese-American teens, and the site was Manzanar, the camp where they and 100,000 others were interned by the U.S. government during WWII.<\/p>\n

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