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The Beaches Honor Guard fired their rifles toward the cloudy chill above Monday morning to salute all who were killed or injured 79 years ago when the Japanese attacked the pride of the U.S. Navy's Pacific fleet and began the American involvement in World War II.

The salute followed multiple rings of a ship's bell to remember the 21 U.S. Navy, Army, Air Force, Coast Guard and Marine Corps members from Jacksonville who died at Pearl Harbor, or fought there and have passed away in the past year.

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'Walter R. Barnes,' chaplain Fred Hill said before a bell toll in the Fleet Reserve Association's lodge for men like Ronald Taylor Fleming, Edward M. Turner and David L. Pitts.

That 1941 attack started at 7:55 a,m. on a quiet Sunday. By the time it was over, 2,403 soldiers, sailors and civilians had been killed as six battleships were sunk or destroyed along with dozens of airplanes.

In his speech, Roosevelt declared that December 7, 1941, the day that the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, would remain 'a date which will live in infamy.' The word 'infamy' derives from the root word 'fame,' and translates roughly to 'fame gone bad.'

More: Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day 2019: What happened during fateful attack 79 years ago?

At 9 a.m. on Monday, the Fleet Reserve held a ceremony of remembrance for those victims, branch president Tommy Stephens saying he hopes no one forgets what happened that day.

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'That one event brought us together probably as much if not more than the events of Sept. 11,' Stephens said. 'We owe it to the ones who went before us and paid the ultimate sacrifice. ... It really strikes home for us who served aboard ships, the pain and devastation that event caused and it is very important to remember.'

Although the ceremony was not an official military event, Naval Station Mayport staff attended. That included base public information officer Bill Austin, who said it is very important that they remember the attack and honor their shipmates of 79 years ago.

'The younger generations especially should learn and know what happened,' said Austin, a Navy veteran himself. 'I'm very pleased that Fleet Reserve Branch 290 has not stopped this remembrance for all these years, and continue the tradition to educate and to remember those fallen.'

Fleet Reserve is open to all current and former enlisted members of the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard, founded in 1924 by Navy Chief Yeoman George Carlin to protect the pay and benefits of enlisted Sea Service members and their families on Capitol Hill.

Monday's ceremony was small, held inside its lodge on Mayport Road. The chapter has held this memorial annually since 1968, beginning this one with a pledge of allegiance and a prayer to 'have mercy on the souls our our departed shipmates,' chapter chaplain Fred Hill said.

America was brought into World War II on Dec. 7, 1941, when the Japanese attacked U.S. forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The 16 million soldiers, sailors and nurses who fought in that war are now in their late 80s and 90s, and only about 325,000 of them remaining, according to U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs statistics.

This was not the only local event commemorating the attack, with K9s for Warriors and the We Can Be Heroes Foundation holding a Pearl Harbor Remembrance Breakfast on Saturday with local World War II veterans in person, organizers said.

The Florida Highway Patrol also celebrated a Pearl Harbor veteran who also fought at the Battle of Midway, and is one of its own.

Retired Major Marlin Crider, Florida Highway Patrol Auxiliary, received a surprise 100th birthday party on Monday, honored as the longest serving and living member of the Highway Patrol's Auxiliary, with more than 40 years. He recently received the Highway Patrol's Lifetime Achievement Award for more than 50,000 hours of auxiliary service. He is also an avid classic car collector, honored at the recent Cecil Pines Car Show with one of four DeSotos that he owns.

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Fleet Reserve's ceremony included an ode to the U.S.S. Arizona, which sunk in Pearl Harbor with its crew aboard, accounting for 1,177 of the total attack's fatalities. Hill read an ode to those victims in the massive ship, beginning with its quiet anchorage on Battleship Row, 'where I suffered my first blow.'

'The aggressors came on relentlessly; attack, attack with no respite,' Hill said. 'My boilers blew with a resounding blast when a bomb dropped own my stack. Magazines were next to go, the blow that broke my back.'

The ceremony included copies of newspapers on display, the Dec. 8 Florida Times-Union headline declaring 'JAPAN DECLARES WAR ON U.S. AND BRITAIN' as a subhead says 'Hawaii Hit Hard Declares White House.'

The memorial ended outside when honor guard member John Poe put down his rifle and played a mournful Taps on a bugle as a gentle shower moved over Mayport.

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This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: 'Day of infamy' remembered in Monday ceremony honoring those who died at Pearl Harbor

Each year on Dec. 7, Stephen and Jeanne Keith of Pembroke stand at the State House Plaza and offer informal classes on the Day of Infamy.

For years they've set up an exhibit, a tribute to the 2,400 people killed at Pearl Harbor, using their very own World War II-era vehicles, a jeep and a truck, to bring the olive-green colors of the war to life.

They set up shop again on Monday, giving kids the chance to learn that the Japanese attack on our Pacific Fleet pushed the United States into World War II, and soon we were at war with Germany as well.

Many are startled when they hear that the U.S.S. Arizona – sunk during the surprise attack and forever known as the tragic symbol from this day – continues to release nine quarts of oil per day at the tribute site nearly 80 years later, coating the surface of the blue Hawaiian water with what has fittingly become known as the 'Black Tears.'

'We've seen about 30 people so far here today,' Stephen Keith said on an overcast, windy day. 'There are some veterans and some parents, men and women, and some little kids. The veterans thank us for doing what we do and keeping history alive. We try to honor all of our veterans, whether they fought or not. They're all special to us.'

As usual, he was supercharged for this year's display, ready to reveal little-known facts from the ambush that changed the course of world history.

For example, he mentioned the Niihau Incident, which occurred in the days after the attack, when a Japanese pilot crashed on the Hawaiian island and received comfort from the residents of Japanese descent, still unaware that war had erupted.

Soon after, Japanese Americans were prejudged, rounded up and held indefinitely.

'It marked the first time a Japanese American on American soil had a chance to choose sides and chose the wrong side,' Keith said. 'That's what caused and was the start of the internment camps.'

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Keith also cited the U.S.S. Enterprise, an aircraft carrier that, through sheer luck, hit rough seas after delivering planes to Wake Island, forcing the ship to slow its engines and delaying its arrival to Pearl on the Day of Infamy.

'They were going to make Pearl on (Dec. 6) at night,' Keith said. 'They got in the next afternoon, hours after the attack. The U.S.S. Enterprise would have been sunk, and it was involved in 20 of 22 major battles in the Pacific. If we had lost it, it would have been catastrophic and might have changed World War II dramatically.'

Keialso analyses the politics and context of the day, saying, 'The more you learn about history, the more you question some things. For instance, they had so many warnings about Pearl Harbor and there were things they could have put together and they did not.'

He's there, along with Jeanne, with stories, known and unknown, each Dec. 7. He loved watching the little boy sit in the driver's seat of his 1942 Ford Army Jeep during his latest presentation.

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At home the night before, Keith carefully drove the Jeep up narrow planks and into the back of his 10-wheel 1943 GMC Army troop carrier.

The truck, with its three stick shifts on the floor and a .50-caliber machine gun on top, rolled in around 7:30 Monday morning. Its bullets, six inches long, are strung together in the couple's barn, which is rich in World War II items.

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Keith loves the fact that the kid who looks after the couple's chickens was eager to finish the book Keith had given him recently. It told the story of the U.S.S. Enterprise, nicknamed the Big-E.

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'Most people are surprised when they hear about it,' Keith said. 'The father sent me a picture of his son sleeping at night trying to read and finish the book. I'll let him digest that one and then he can move on to the next one.'