Framed by lights blurred during a rainy evening, Creswell’s Rick Higgins delivers his ”Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day” speech during the city’s ”Winter Lights” festivities on Saturday. Erin Tierney/The Chronicle
Editor’s note: Creswell resident Rick Higgins is a former state commander of the Oregon VFW. This is the speech he gave Saturday.
Greetings.
Today, we recall an event on Dec. 7, 1941 that forever changed the United States.
Seventy-eight years ago, the attack on Pearl Harbor…
