SACRAMENTO – Governor Gavin Newsom right now issued a proclamation declaring December 7, 2024, as Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.

The textual content of the proclamation and a duplicate will be discovered beneath:

PROCLAMATION

On today 83 years in the past, Imperial Japan launched an unprovoked assault on the US Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, killing greater than 2,400 American service members and civilians and destroying a lot of our nation’s Pacific Fleet. This assault led President Roosevelt to name on Congress to declare an act of struggle the following day, stating December 7, 1941 could be a “date which is able to stay in infamy.”
 
As we replicate on the painful losses of that fateful day, we keep in mind those that defended Pearl Harbor – and all of the brave people who signed as much as serve our nation in battlefields throughout the globe. Annually, we’re reminded of those immense sacrifices and all that we owe our service members who combat to defend the freedoms we cherish.
 
On Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, allow us to replicate on the that means of sacrifice and heroism and pay solemn tribute to the American heroes who gave their lives to make the world extra secure, free and simply.
 
NOW THEREFORE I, GAVIN NEWSOM, Governor of the State of California, do hereby proclaim December 7, 2024, as Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF I’ve hereunto set my hand and prompted the Nice Seal of the State of California to be affixed this 4th day of November 2024.

GAVIN NEWSOM
Governor of California

ATTEST:
SHIRLEY N. WEBER, Ph.D.
Secretary of State