"It is a day that will live in infamy," said Franklin Roosevelt after the attack on Pearl Harbor.  For those who were alive when it happened, the attack on the naval base at Pearl Harbor, whose 71st anniversary we remember today, changed their world forever.  Never before had America been attacked, never before had such devastation been visited upon its shores.  Life had been turned upside down.

     We grieve for those who lost their lives in this attack.  And we grieve for the thousand and thousands of additional lives that were lost redressing what happened.  The pain and carnage are almost unfathomable.  
     Regardless of where we live today, as we look back on that day, that day so long ago, we remember the gravity of every human life.  No one should die unremembered, no one should die alone. No one should leave this life lost and abandoned, an abandoned image of God.
     Most of all, we pray that the world will never see such horror again.