Long Islanders remembered "a day that will live in infamy" at the American Air Power Museum in Farmingdale.

The ceremony honored the 2,403 soldiers and civilians who died during the attack at Pearl Harbor, as well as 17 local World War II veterans.

The Long Island Air Force Association memorialized the 83rd anniversary of the attack with it’s annual "dropping of the roses" tradition.

Joseph Hydrusko, a Navy medic at Pearl Harbor started the tradition. Each year, since the attack, Hydrusko would fly his aircraft and drop one American Beauty rose into New York Harbor. Hydrusko passed away in 1983.

The tradition continues each year on the anniversary of Pearl Harbor.

"My uncle's message was ‘never forget,’" says Gary Hydruski.