The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on the morning of December 7, 1941, damaging and destroying nearly 20 American ships and more than 300 airplanes. The event killed 2,403 Americans, including 68 civilians, and wounded over 1,000 people.

Hundreds of letters captured what life was like out at sea. One of the letters was even being written in the exact moment he learned about Pearl Harbor. It showed Butler a side of her dad that she didn’t see as she was growing up. 

"A date that will live in infamy", that from President Franklin D. Roosevelt to Congress the day after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.