Ronald Reagan

“ As President Franklin Roosevelt told our Nation the day after Pearl Harbor was attacked, "It is our obligation to our dead-it is our sacred obligation to their children and our children-that we must never forget what we have learned."
We have not forgotten, nor will we. We live in a world made more free, more just, and more peaceful by those who will answer roll call no more, those who will report for muster never again. We do remember Pearl Harbor. ”

“ Every honor is appropriate for the courageous Americans who made the supreme sacrifice for our Nation at Pearl Harbor and in the many battles that followed in World War II. Their sacrifice was for a cause, not for conquest; for a world that would be safe for future generations. ”

“ In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this second day of December, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-six, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and eleventh. ”