Shortly after noon Sunday, a vintage United States Navy aircraft took off from the American Airpower Museum in Farmingdale bound for the Statue of Liberty carrying three bouquets of roses.

There, the roses were dropped from the World War II-era plane. The gesture was part of the museum's commemoration of the Sunday 84 years ago that forever linked Dec. 7, 1941 with the darkest dates in U.S. history. That morning, squadrons of Japanese fighter planes rained bombs and bullets down on the U.S. Navy's Pacfic Fleet at Pearl Harbor on Oahu, killing 2,403 Americans in a surprise attack and spurring the country's entry into World War II.

The dropping of the roses was preceded by a ceremony at the museum conducted by the Long Island Air & Space Forces Association . Nearby, appropriately eno

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