HONESDALE, PA - More than two dozen veterans, all three Wayne County commissioners and Wayne Memorial Hospital staff, many of them veterans, gathered in the hospital's new pedestrian concourse on December 6th to remember one of the darkest days in U.S. history, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt called it “a date which will live in infamy.” The surprise attack by the Japanese on December 7th, 1941, claimed more than 2,000 lives and marked the official entry of the U.S. into World War II.

The ceremony, led by VFW Post 531 Commander Phil Sheehan, American Legion Post 254's James Bruck and Wayne Memorial Health Foundation Executive Director Jack Dennis included readings about the day of the attack and the playing of taps by bugler Doug Wyllie.

In addition, the group said a somber prayer and laid a wreath at the hospital's memorial plaque dedicated to soldiers who lost their lives in World War I.