Sisolak orders flags to half-staff for ‘Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day’

Las Vegas Review-Journal

3 years ago

American ships burn during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Dec. 7, 1942. (AP P ... — American ships burn during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Dec. 7, 1942. (AP Photo)

The USS Nevada’s departure from Pearl Harbor under tow by the USS Jicarilla on July 26, 1948. Bearing the scars of two atomic blasts, the Nevada is about to be bombed and shelled by ships and aircraft for four days before sinking. (Official U.S. Navy photograph)

USS Arizona Memorial, part of the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument, at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii on Dec. 27, 2016. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Gov. Steve Sisolak signed a proclamation for Monday to be remembered in Nevada as “Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day,” to honor those who lost who died during the attack.

In a statement issued Sunday, the governor ordered U.S. and Nevada flags to be flown at half-staff at the state Capitol and all state public buildings and grounds from sunrise to sunset on Monday, in recognition of National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, “to honor the lives lost in the attack at Pearl Harbor on Oahu, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941.”

More than 2,400 lives were lost in the attack that brought the U.S. into World War II.

The proclamation also recognizes the state’s namesake battleship, the USS Nevada, which was stationed at Pearl Harbor during the attack and was hit by six bombs and a torpedo. The USS Nevada was later used during the D-Day invasion in 1944 and the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa in 1945.