COLORADO — Governor Jared Polis directed flags be flown half staff Saturday in honor of National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.
It will mark 83 years since Japanese forces attacked a U.S. Navy base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, launching the United States into World War II. The attack killed more than 2,400 Americans and injured nearly 1,200 others.
Every year on December 7, people come together on the shores of Pearl Harbor to remember what happened on that day back in 1941. President Franklin Roosevelt famously called the date of the attack "a date which will live in infamy.
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'It's like this every day,' Peterson SFB employee says traffic out of base could be safety hazard
It's an area with a lot of construction. That work has Peterson Road just outside the north gate of Peterson Space Force Base down to two lanes.
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