REMEMBERING PEARL HARBOR - AND 9/11 - TODAY, DECEMBER 7, 2010 | Firefighter Close Calls | Firefighter Close Calls is the home of the Secret List. The worlds most visited website focused exclusively on firefighter survival

For those younger visitors to www.FireFighterCloseCalls.com , today is "Pearl Harbor Day" and we remember the attack on Pearl Harbor, which was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on the morning of December 7, 1941. 188 U.S. aircraft were destroyed, 2,402 personnel were killed and 1,282 were wounded.

FIREFIGHTERS KILLED & INJURED IN THE LINE OF DUTY AT PEARL HARBOR:

As the Hickam Field firefighting apparatus was knocked out, Honolulu Fire companies responded to assist with the fires. At 0826 a Japanese aerial bomb was dropped on crews from HFD Engine Co.1, 4, and 6. 3 Firefighters, Captain John Carreira, Captain Thomas S. Macy, and Hoseman Harry T.L. Pang were killed in the Line of Duty. An additional 6 were wounded from shrapnel. They were Honolulu Fire Lieutenant Fred Kealoha, Hoseman Moses Kalilikane, Hoseman John A. Gilman, Hoseman Solomon H. Naauao, Hoseman Patrick J. McCabe, and Hoseman George Correa. In 1944 they all were awarded the Order of the Purple Heart. They are the only non-military personnel to have received this award.

MORE on Pearl Harbor as we remember those lost on December 7, 1941:

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/pearlharbor/

PLEASE MAKE THAT CALL TODAY TO REMEMBER THOSE INJURED ON 9/11:

That long-embattled bill to provide $7.4 billion in medical treatment and lost wages for sickened Ground Zero workers may finally get a chance at becoming law this week. Word is that majority leader Harry Reid plans to set in motion tomorrow a process that could clear the way for passage of the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act.

Ground Zero demolition worker and advocate John Feal plans to bring a busload of 9/11 responders to Washington today – Pearl Harbor Day — to remind senators that the US passed a similar bill in 1942 to aid shipyard workers injured or sickened in that attack. “This is our last chance to show the US Senate that they have to man up on their patriotism,” Feal said. “They have a moral obligation to the heroes of 9/11 to pass this bill.” President Obama has said he would sign it.

The bill would provide health care and economic compensation for 10 years to 9/11 workers and the families of those who died of illnesses blamed on toxic Ground Zero dust, as well as some sickened Lower Manhattan residents.

While e-mail to us indicates that some Firefighters DO NOT support this bill, we urge those who DO to please call or email your senators TODAY and tell them to please vote FOR for the James Zadroga 9/11 Victims’ Health and Compensation Act (H.R. 847). Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has scheduled votes on the legislation for tomorrow, Wednesday, December 8. The Zadroga Act would establish health treatment and monitoring programs for World Trade Center responders. In September, the House approved the Zadroga Act by a vote of 268-160. All Senate offices can be reached by calling the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 225- 3121.

As many say, there will be another terrorist attack, it’s just a matter of when. And when WHEN happens, what Firefighters and other First Responders will lose their lives, and how many will also need long term support, like the responders of 9/11 do now? It may be any of us in the future.

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