<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/about/office-of-the-president/presidents-bulletin/2025/12-02/pearl-harbor-day.html" dsn="blogs"><featured/><categories/><pubDate>12/02/2025 02:00:00 AM</pubDate><title>Pearl Harbor Day: Remembering Downstate’s Wartime Legacy</title><sub-title/><description>As December 7 approaches, we pause to honor a day that altered the course of history and shaped an entire generation. While the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 feels distant, the memories still reverberate in American life, including here at Downstate, then known as the Long Island College of Medicine (LICM).</description><author>Office of the President</author><image><img xmlns:ouc="http://omniupdate.com/XSL/Variables" src="/about/office-of-the-president/presidents-bulletin/2025/12-02/_images/pearl-harbor-5861488_1920.jpg" alt="photo of USS Arizona Memorial"/></image><loc>/var/staging/oucampus/suny-downstate/downstate/about/office-of-the-president/presidents-bulletin/2025/12-02/pearl-harbor-day.xml</loc><categories/></item>