"When it comes to Pearl Harbor survivors, there is no such thing as a last hurrah. As long as the last man is standing, we'll keep coming back."

Manuel Magdaleno, 84
Pearl Harbor survivor

"What happened at Pearl Harbor was the start of a long and terrible war for America. Yet out of that surprise attack grew a steadfast resolve that made America freedom's defender."

President Bush

"It's been hard for me through the years to forgive. I still work on it. When you see shipmates burned to a crisp or you pull bodies out of the water and stack them like cord wood, it's hard. Most of us say we don't forget and we don't forgive. We'd like to. The good book says we should."

Frank Curre Jr., 78
Pearl Harbor survivor

"We wanted to pay tribute to the men. I feel like them. We have something in common with them."

Tommy Falco, 47
New York City firefighter

"We gather to pay homage to the heroes of a war long gone, and as we come this time, we are at war again, our homeland attacked."

Adm. Vern Clark
Chief of Naval Operations

"I need not ask that God bless America; because of you, he already has."

Robin Higgins
U.S. Undersecretary for memorial affairs

"We were reluctant warriors in the late 1930s, ferocious in our determination only after being provoked in 1941. ... We have been equally ferocious in our determination only after we fell victim to the dastardly acts of September of this year."

Air Force Gen. Richard B. Myers
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

"As we fight to defend what we believe is right, we remember the sacrifice of those who have gone before us — not only the heroes of Pearl Harbor, but all the men and women of the greatest of generations who defeated tyranny."

Presidential proclamation declaring Dec. 7 Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day