We hope you will join us in The Imaginative Conservative community. The Imaginative Conservative is an online journal for those who seek the True, the Good, and the Beautiful. This essay first appeared here in December 2019. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. *Based on the Wikipedia entry for Sammy Kaye. We will always remember how they died for liberty We’ll recall, as into line we fall, the thing that happened on Hawaii’s shore History in ev’ry century records an act that lives forevermore
Shortly after the Japanese attack on December 7, 1941, Sammy Kaye and Don Reid wrote the music and Reid wrote the words to “Remember Pearl Harbor.” On December 17, 1941, RCA Victor recorded the song, with Sammy Kaye’s Swing and Sway Band and The Glee Club.*
