Veterans, civilians gather in downtown Nashua for solemn observance of 84th anniversary of Pearl Harbor attack

Veterans, civilians gather in downtown Nashua for solemn observance of 84th anniversary of Pearl Harbor attack

In 1943, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt devoted much of his annual State of the Union address to reassuring his fellow Americans that despite the horrific attack upon the U.S. Naval base in Hawaii some 13 months earlier, the state of the union “is good, its spirit is strong and the fate of this nation is eternal.”

Nashua Mayor Jim Donchess noted FDR’s optimism and commitment to prevailing in what the former president called “a tremendous, costly, long-enduring war … that is still ahead of us” during his remarks at Sunday’s commemoration of the 84th anniversary of the “date which will live in infamy,” the phrase that has been associated with Dec. 7, 1941, ever since.

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