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President Joe Biden and archetypal woman Jill Biden people the 80th day of the Japanese onslaught connected Pearl Harbor with a sojourn to the World War II Memorial, Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021, successful Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden connected Tuesday marked the 80th day of the Japanese onslaught connected Pearl Harbor with a somber sojourn to the World War II Memorial successful the nation’s capital.

The Dec. 7, 1941, onslaught connected Pearl Harbor and different locations successful Hawaii killed 2,403 work members and civilians and was a defining infinitesimal that led to U.S. introduction into World War II.

Biden, who visited the memorial with archetypal woman Jill Biden, touched a wreath and saluted. The wreath contained a chaotic sunflower, the authorities angiosperm of Kansas, successful grant of erstwhile Sen. Bob Dole, a warfare seasoned who was a driving unit successful getting the memorial built connected the National Mall and died Sunday astatine property 98.

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The archetypal woman dropped a bouquet of flowers astatine the basal of the memorial beneath the New Jersey pillar and softly touched a wall, wherever she and the president spent a moment. The bouquet was successful grant of her father, Donald Jacobs, who served arsenic a U.S. Navy signalman successful the war, the White House said.

Joe Biden, successful a White House proclamation issued past week to admit National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, gave “thanks to the Greatest Generation, who guided our Nation done immoderate of our darkest moments and laid the foundations of an planetary strategy that has transformed erstwhile adversaries into allies.”

Biden made the Tuesday greeting sojourn conscionable hours earlier helium was to clasp a highly anticipated video league telephone with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Biden is expected to usage the telephone to explicit interest astir a Russian unit buildup adjacent its borders with neighboring Ukraine and to marque wide to Putin that an penetration would pb to economy-jarring sanctions against Russia.

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