WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and first girl Jill Biden on Tuesday marked the eightieth anniversary of the Japanese assault on Pearl Harbor with a somber go to to the World Struggle II Memorial within the nation’s capital.
The Dec. 7, 1941, assault on Pearl Harbor and different areas in Hawaii killed 2,403 service members and civilians and was a defining second that led to U.S. entry into World Struggle II.
Joe Biden touched a wreath and saluted. The wreath contained a wild sunflower, the state flower of Kansas, in honor of former Sen. Bob Dole, a conflict veteran who was a driving drive in getting the memorial constructed on the Nationwide Mall and who died Sunday at age 98.
The primary girl laid a bouquet of flowers on the base of the memorial beneath the New Jersey pillar and softly touched a wall, the place she and the president spent a second. The bouquet was in honor of her father, Donald Jacobs, who served as a U.S. Navy signalman within the conflict, the White Home mentioned.
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The Bidens then paused on the Pacific arch on the southern aspect of the memorial plaza for one final second of reflection earlier than departing.
Joe Biden, in a White Home proclamation issued final week to acknowledge Nationwide Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, gave “due to the Best Technology, who guided our Nation by a few of our darkest moments and laid the foundations of a world system that has remodeled former adversaries into allies.”
Biden made the Tuesday morning go to simply hours earlier than he was to carry a extremely anticipated video convention name with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Biden is anticipated to make use of the decision to precise concern about Russia’s troop buildup close to its borders with neighboring Ukraine and to clarify to Putin that an invasion would result in economy-jarring sanctions in opposition to Russia.
