American and Japanese officials gathered in Pearl Harbor on Monday as commemorations of the anniversary of the Dec. 7, 1941, attack continued.

On Ford Island, at a spot overlooking the USS Arizona Memorial, visiting dignitaries from Japan and local officials came together to reflect on “the day that will live in infamy,” as well as all that came after.

Hideaki Chotoku, the Consul General of Japan in Honolulu, told attendees “we are gathered here once again in order to pay tribute to the nearly 2,400 U.S. service members and civilians, 56 Japanese aviators and nine Japanese submariners who had their futures, their dreams and their hopes brought to a calamitous end … In this quiet harbor, we honor those who we lost, and we give thanks for all that our two nations have built together as fri

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