Kansas City Remembers Pearl Harbor Day

Credit where it's due . . . Our favorite South Side newspaper has the best local angle on a tribute story of a day that still lives in infamy . . . 

"A date survived and memorialized by Dorinda Makanaonalani Nicholson, a Raytown resident who witnessed the bombing and hid in a sugarcane field when her house caught fire.

"Her family lived on the harbor peninsula and were just sitting down to breakfast when they heard the sound of low flying planes followed by explosions. She and her father ran into the front yard, where they saw planes emblazoned with the orange-red logo of the Rising Sun."

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As a child she survived Pearl Harbor. Now she shares its valuable lessons

By Jill Draper This date will live in infamy, declared then-President Franklin Delano Roosevelt when the Japanese military attacked a U.S. naval base in Hawaii's Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. It's also a date survived and memorialized by Dorinda Makanaonalani Nicholson, a Raytown resident who witnessed the bombing and hid in a sugarcane field...