Nanjing Massacre and Pearl Harbor Memorial Day Ceremony was held in front of the "Sino-US Monument to World War II" in Monterey Park City Hall, Southern California on the morning of Dec. 8 local time, according to uschinapress.com. This event was co-sponsored by the US-China Association of Peace and Friendship and the Chinese Association of American Communities.
The public memorial service
More than 100 people from southern California, including overseas Chinese, local dignitaries, veterans, Chinese diplomats in the United States and representatives of various sectors of society, attended the 81st anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre and the 77th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
An exhibit helped the public know more about this part of the history.
During the ceremony, Zhang Sujiu, a well-known overseas Southern Californian leader and the daughter of Zhang Zhizhong, the late patriotic commander of the Kuomintang during the war of resistance against Japan, read out a four-word ritual. She expressed deepest sorrow for both the Chinese and Americans who diedduring the Nanjing Massacre and the Pearl Harbor Attack.
Ms. Zhang said they have held annual events to commemorate the Nanjing Massacre and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor since 2014, in an attempt to renew the friendship between China and the United States. At present, the United States and China are the first and second largest economies in the world. She hoped that the two countries would play an important role in the future and the two peoples will once again join hands to safeguard world peace.
