Each year, the Pearl Harbor survivors, families, Veterans and visitors all across the globe come together to remember the service members and civilians who died during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941.   This years Commemoration’s theme, Above and Beyond the Call, represents a milestone in itself, as the first December 7 commemoration to follow the nationwide commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the end of WWII. 

This year’s ceremony will focus on Battlefield O’ahu. Through the Japanese Empire focused on the destruction of the Pacific Fleet in Pearl Harbor, the attack encompassed the entire island with assaults on Army and Marine aviation bases as well as civilian facilities.