Colorado Springs remembers Pearl Harbor

The date that will live in infamy was also remembered at the Pikes Peak Regional Development Center in Colorado Springs today.

The Navy League organized the ceremony, where dozens of military personnel and county officials marked the day with a wreath laying ceremony.

The event also featured speakers and musicians, including a rendition of “Taps” to honor those who gave their lives that day.

World War II veterans and their families, who were in the audience, shared vivid memories of those days.

“My older brother was on the (battleship) Tennessee and I knew that. So I ran home about a block to tell my mother and of course she was terrified,” said Jack Frost.

Frost’s brother died in 2011.

In his later years he became a tugboat captain in San Francisco and friends with a number of Japanese captains.