Bossier Sheriff Remembering Pearl Harbor; December 7, 1941

To our parents and grandparents, December 7, 1941 is their version of 9/11.  It was on that date that, without provocation, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor.

And as President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed the following day when he spoke to the U.S. Congress - “Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.” Shortly after the speech, Congress declared war against Japan and brought the U.S. into World War II.

It was during this time that men would serve their country as mere teenagers during WWII and later be called part of “The World’s Greatest Generation.” How did this happen? What made them and others in America earn such a title?

Bossier Sheriff Julian Whittington and the Bossier Sheriff’s Office were humbled to hear from some of those men, now in their late 80s and 90s and serving on the Bossier Sheriff’s Office Posse, about serving their country during WWII. Six men discuss the war, life at home, patriotism, service on the Posse and their faith. The men are: Bill Breeland, U.S. Army Air Corps; Ray Urban, U.S. Marine Corps; Ken Myers, U.S. Navy; Al Turner, Sr., U.S. Army Air Corps; Herb Dunlop, U.S. Navy & National Guard; John Williams, U.S. Navy.