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Flashback update: Bears game on Dec. 7, 1941
One mystery about Dec. 7, 1941, remained after scrubbing the Tribune's coverage of that fateful day: How did fans who were at the Chicago Bears-Chicago Cardinals game hear about the attack? The newspaper is silent on the matter. Luckily for Chicago...Tags: Chicago Bears, National Football League, U.S. Cellular Field, Arizona Cardinals, Green Bay Packers
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Pearl Harbor attack galvanizes city
The shocking news from Pearl Harbor interrupted a Bears broadcast.
Many Chicagoans learned of the surprise attack 70 years ago this week when WGN Radio's Ward Quaal broke into the transmission of the Chicago Bears-Chicago Cardinals game at about 1:30 p....Tags: U.S. Army, China, Radio, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Southern California Close-Ups: Coastal Orange County
First published on May 29, 2011. Revised and expanded in early 2012. Hear that? That dull roar, like the sound from inside a shell? That might be the Orange County coastline calling you -- 42 miles of beach and beach towns, give or take, from San...
Tags: Surfing, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, State Parks, Arts, World War II (1939-1945)
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Last of 5 WWII Brothers Dies; Family Looks Back
A military family with ties to Michigan is honoring a special group of veterans for Memorial Day. The Oldham family, who grew up in Monroe County, had five brothers who all served in World War II at the same time. All five young men came home from the...
Tags: Human Interest, World War II (1939-1945), Memorial Day, Injuries and Wounds, Health
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Honoring those who fought for our freedom
Their friends and memories may be slipping away, but World War II veterans could still count on their neighbors Monday. Hundreds saluted local service members at Costa Mesa's Harbor Lawn-Mt. Olive Memorial Park and Mortuary. Speakers at the 58th...
Tags: Human Interest, World War II (1939-1945), North Africa, Memorial Day, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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USS Oklahoma survivors reunite for the last time
SAN DIEGO -- The few remaining survivors of the USS Oklahoma got together Friday to tour the USS Midway for their very last reunion. The Pearl Harbor survivors, many of whom are in their 90s, also reminisced about that fateful day December 7, 1941. ...
Tags: Human Interest
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Mailbag: Catamaran took him around the globe
John Conser of Costa Mesa, a designer and builder of the Conser 47 catamaran, greeted David Pollitt, proud owner of the Conser 47, Shearwater, upon David's completion of a three-year, solo circumnavigation around the world. "Congratulations, David, on...
Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Teaching and Learning, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Paine, Arthur Davis
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Memories of Pearl Harbor
![Retirees now living in South Florida remember what it was like 70 years ago when Japan launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, including a veteran who was a security officer on "the day that will live in infamy."](http://media.trb.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-12/121975480-07081046.jpg "Retirees now living in South Florida remember what it was like 70 years ago when Japan launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, including a veteran who was a security officer on "the day that will live in infamy.\"")
Retirees now living in South Florida remember what it was like 70 years ago when Japan launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, including a veteran who was a security officer on "the day that will live in infamy." -
Assignment Alaska, Historic Kalakala for Sale in Tacoma
The Kalakala, a historic ferry which has plied the waters of Puget Sound and was later used by Alaska fish processors on Kodiak Island, is up for sale – for only one dollar.
More about that later. But first, let’s retrace the Kalakala&...Tags: Human Interest, World War II (1939-1945), Tour Operations Industry, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Ron Kaye: Learning the lesson of the 9/11 tragedy
It was just before 2:30 in the afternoon of Sunday Dec. 7, 1941 when a New York radio station interrupted the broadcast of the New York Giants football game with a shocking news bulletin: The Japanese had staged a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S....Tags: Entertainment, CBS Corp., Japan, NBC (tv network), September 11, 2001 Attacks
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Taken for Granted: Digging into the Dorie Miller story
A late-February lunch conversation turned to the subject of Black History Month, and specifically to a man named Doris Miller. That's right, his first name was Doris; but to friends and anyone wishing to avoid his wrath, it had better be Dorie. An...Tags: Black History, Entertainment, African-American History Month, Football, Sports
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Tropico Perspective: It's time to reclaim our values
We have lived with 9/11 for 10 years today. I was in Florida on a business trip, scheduled to fly out that afternoon for Los Angeles when I woke in time to watch the second plane hit the World Trade Center Tower. From that moment on, our nation changed....Tags: Ethics, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Constitutional Issues, Politics, Values
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