“A Date Which Will Live in Infamyâ€
Each year fewer and fewer people remember what happened on December 7, 1941, which is sad.
Above is a photo of the U.S.S. Arizona before it was sunk on December 7, 1941, the date when the nation of Japan attacked United States Forces in Hawaii.
At the time of the attack, Japan’s envoys were in the United States to discuss peace.
Please keep that in the back of your mind the next time a presidential candidate says we should break our asses to TALK to the bad guys.
I’m just sayin’.
I watched the Ken Burns DVD series “The War” recently. Recommended.
Comment by dogette — December 7, 2007 @ 9:22 pm
I lived in Hawaii for over 25 years and no one there forgets, in fact you can still find people who were alive and lived thru the attack. My hairdresser, lived above Pearl Harbor, and she remembers the planes flying over head and watching the attacks from her house.
Comment by LeeAnn — December 7, 2007 @ 10:20 pm
While a crewmember of the USS Enterprise, I was never asked to get into my dress uniform so that I could render Honors to the USS Arizona memorial whenever we passed it.
However, that didn’t stop me from standing on a sponson and saluting it my own damn self.
Comment by DMerriman — December 7, 2007 @ 10:42 pm
George Santayana was, of course, right.
Comment by Elisson — December 8, 2007 @ 8:37 am
I for one will not forget.
Comment by Kevin — December 8, 2007 @ 11:50 am
an excellent point, oh wise one of the reststop.
we used to sing the song, “december seventh, nineteen hundred and forty one…” in church. I swear, thanks to that tune, I will never be one to forget the date. educationally brainwashed for the better, music was so different too.
Comment by supergurl — December 8, 2007 @ 12:48 pm
I’ll never forget. My grandmother and my father were there — he was just shy of 14 months old. My grandfather was on patrol in the Phillipines, and they didn’t hear from him for many months. My grandmother finally managed to catch a ride on a ship bound for San Francisco about 2 months later.
I go to the Arizona every time I have reason to be in Hawaii. And I cry every time.
Comment by Ken Adams — December 8, 2007 @ 2:39 pm
Elisson is, of course, right about George Santayana.
Comment by Erica — December 8, 2007 @ 3:00 pm