{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["http://www.murkowski.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=57903919-d853-4ac2-921e-293ba93bfdf7", "On Pearl Harbor Anniversary, WWII Veteran Says \u201cLife is Magnificent\u201d", "2013-12-07", "2013", "2013-12", "Republican", "House", "AK", "Lisa Murkowski", "M001153", "www.murkowski.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "12.07.13\n\t\t\t On Pearl Harbor Anniversary, WWII Veteran Says \u201cLife is Magnificent\u201d \n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t \n\t\n\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n        \n\t\t\t\t Murkowski Spotlights 90 Year Old Army Veteran to Mark \u201cDate Which Will Live in Infamy\u201d\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Anchorage resident Norman Hogg carries with him an Army-issued Bible received during his service time in World War II, bearing an inscription from then President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.\u00a0 He also carries a remarkable abundance of stories, observations and an authentic Alaskan brand of optimism. As the nation remembers the December 7th, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor that brought the United States into the Second World War \u2013 a \u201cdate which will live in infamy\u201d in Roosevelt\u2019s words \u2013 Senator Lisa Murkowski is releasing her 19th Veteran Spotlight interview, focusing on the military service of WWII veteran Norman Hogg.\u00a0 Hogg was just 19 years old when he recalls hearing of the Pearl Harbor attack on the \u201cwireless\u201d radio.\u00a0 He would join the U.S. Army just a few months later at age 20.\r\nDuring his interview, Hogg recounts being assigned to the Signal Corps, where he would put his Eagle Scout training to good use teaching his fellow soldiers how to survive in life-threatening water combat operations.\u00a0 Though he remained in the United States throughout his military carrier, Hogg recalls losing his childhood friends to the WWII battles overseas and the impact it had on the rest of his life.\r\n\r\n(Click here for excerpt of Norman recalling hearing about the Pearl Harbor Attack over the radio.\u00a0CLICK HERE for the extended interview)\r\n\u201cAmericans were killed by a foreign country and I knew we were going to war,\u201d said Norman Hogg.\u00a0 \u201cThere was this comradeship between soldiers that I remember.\u00a0 We became family.\u00a0 Those 400,000 people who died, they sacrificed their lives, and I am very grateful to them, because otherwise there would have been tyranny.\u201d\r\nThis past October, Hogg was one of 29 Alaskan World War II veterans who traveled Washington, D.C. to visit the WWII memorial as part of the inaugural Last Frontier Honor Flight.\u00a0 Hogg brought his Bible with him as a link to the past that he says brought him and his service in the military full circle.\r\n\u201cAs you get older, memories become more important,\u201d said Hogg.\u00a0 \u201cI remember times from the war and my childhood and the early years in Alaska.\u00a0 All these memories are mixed up in you, and they are you.\u00a0 Life has been good to me.\u00a0 Life is magnificent!\u201d\r\n\u201cNorman Hogg\u2019s story is one of an American hero,\u201d said Senator Murkowski.\u00a0 \u201cHe stepped up and served our country during one of the most trying times in our nation\u2019s history.\u00a0 His memories and his legacy should not be forgotten.\u00a0 We owe it to veterans like Norman to honor them through sharing their stories, and we owe it to the rest of us to learn from the high levels of patriotism, commitment and service they demonstrate for us.\u201d\u00a0\r\nThe \u201cVeteran Spotlight\u201d project is Senator Murkowski\u2019s monthly focus on an Alaska veteran of American conflicts worldwide to honor and draw well-deserved attention to Alaska\u2019s men and women who served.\u00a0 Today\u2019s installment is the nineteenth in the series that began on Memorial Day weekend of 2012.\u00a0 Every month, Sen. 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