A 'date which will live in infamy'; Pearl Harbor: Why
remembering matters, 71 years later  NEW YORK -- The airplanes
were so low, the red dots on their gray wings were easily
visible from the ground.  The image of those planes swarming
overhead has stayed with U.S. Sens. Daniel Inouye and Daniel
Akaka in the 71 years since Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, they say.
Both Hawaii Democrats, teenagers at the time, witnessed the
attack and then fought in World War II.  Inouye and Akaka, both
88 years old, are among three World War II veterans in the
Senate, along with U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D., N.J.).  Only
about 1.5 million of the 16 million soldiers who served in World
War II are still alive, with nearly 700 of them dying per day,
according to the National World War II Museum. The Department of
Veterans Affairs estimates there will be no surviving World War
II veterans by 2036.  Collective memories of Dec. 7, 1941 --
that "date which will live in infamy," as President Franklin
Roosevelt put it in an address to Co