Gov. Andy Beshear orders flags to half-staff for National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day

FRANKFORT, Ky. – Gov. Andy Beshear has directed that flags at all state office buildings be lowered to half-staff on Thursday, Dec. 7 in observance of National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.

According to a release by Beshear’s office, the tribute is “in memory and honor of the more than 2,400 Americans who died in a surprise attack on the U.S. naval fleet’s Pearl Harbor base in the early-morning hours of Dec. 7, 1941.”

President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared Dec. 7, 1941, “a day which will live in infamy” and signed the Declaration of War against Japan the following day, Dec. 8., the release says.

The governor encourages all individuals to take part in the tribute.