Pearl Harbor survivors gather to remember
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii – Veterans who survived the Pearl Harbor attack that launched the United States into World War II attended Sunday’s 73rd anniversary ceremony with the help of canes, wheelchairs and motorized scooters.
Wearing purple orchid lei, about 100 Pearl Harbor and World War II survivors attended the ceremony overlooking a memorial that sits atop sunken battleship USS Arizona. Many of them arrived well before the sun came up.
Harold Johnson, 90, is making it a goal to attend the 75th anniversary, even though traveling from Oak Harbor, Washington state, isn’t always easy.
“I’ve got a little scooter that’s a real life saver,” the USS Oklahoma survivor said.
Syria: Israeli airstrikes hit near Damascus
DAMASCUS, Syria – Israeli warplanes bombed two areas near Damascus on Sunday, striking near the city’s international airport as well as outside a town close to the Lebanese border, the Syrian military said.
Since Syria’s conflict began in March 2011, Israel has carried out several airstrikes in Syria that have targeted sophisticated weapons systems, including Russian-made anti-aircraft missiles and Iranian-made missiles, believed to be destined for Israel’s arch foe – the Lebanese Hezbollah group.
Israel has never confirmed the strikes, and on Sunday the Israeli military said it does not comment on “foreign reports.”
The Syrian armed forces’ general command said Sunday’s “flagrant attack” caused material damage near the airport or in the town of Dimas, which is northwest of Damascus along the main highway from the capital to the Lebanese frontier.
Cassidy’s win completes GOP tide
Louisiana Republican Bill Cassidy’s defeat of Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu completes the GOP’s takeover of Deep South politics and its national domination of the 2014 midterm elections.
“The American people do not like the agenda that Barack Obama has staked out for our country, nor do they like the effects of these policies,” Cassidy told Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace in his only scheduled interview Sunday.
Cassidy specifically cited the president’s health-care overhaul; alluded to the administration’s regulatory approach to gas, oil and coal, repeating the GOP message that those policies “kill those jobs”; and lambasted Obama’s executive action on immigration.
Associated Press
