World News Tonight (ABC) - 1991-12-07
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[0:00] side.
[0:02] >> May God bless them
[0:05] and may God bless America, the most
[0:08] wondrous land on Earth.
[0:10] >> A World War II fighter pilot now
[0:13] commanderin-chief remembering the
[0:15] tragedy at Pearl Harbor 50 years later.
[0:22] >> From ABC News World News Saturday,
[0:26] here's Carol Simpson.
[0:28] >> Good evening. Threearters of the people
[0:30] in this nation aren't old enough to
[0:32] remember Pearl Harbor firsthand. And
[0:34] yet, the nation was focused today,
[0:37] remembering the Japanese attack that
[0:38] would send shock waves across the ocean
[0:41] and change the political makeup of the
[0:43] world. President Bush led the solemn
[0:46] memorial, joining thousands of other
[0:48] veterans at the place where more than
[0:50] 2400 fellow servicemen died. Here's
[0:53] White House correspondent Anne Compton.
[1:01] Just minutes before dawn, the hills
[1:03] above Pearl Harbor echoed with memory.
[1:06] President Bush led the nation in
[1:08] remembering. At 7:55 a.m., 50 years to
[1:12] the minute that Japanese warplanes
[1:14] attacked, American F-15s in the Missing
[1:17] Man formation streaked across Hawaii's
[1:19] skies.
[1:23] It is the waters here which hold most of
[1:25] the lives lost. President and Mrs. Bush
[1:28] stood in a memorial built over the hull
[1:30] of the USS Arizona, which took down more
[1:32] than 1,000 sailors that morning. Into
[1:36] the water, they dropped flowered lays
[1:38] just as families have done for 50 years.
[1:41] Bubbles of oil still rise to the
[1:42] surface. Survivors call them tears.
[1:46] >> Look at the water here. Clear and quiet,
[1:50] bidding us to sum up and remember.
[1:54] One day, in what now seems another
[1:57] lifetime,
[1:59] it wrapped its arms around the finest
[2:02] sons any