BLACKHAWKNJ
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82nd anniversary of the "Date which will live in infamy".
December 7
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Which seems to be fading into obscurity.
Tora! Tora! Tora!
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I will never forget!
And I make my grandson & granddaughter remember........
And I make my grandson & granddaughter remember........
It's a generational thing, I'm afraid. I was born in 1953. My parents' generation never forgot what they were doing on December 7, 1941, and their commemoration of that date was part of our upbringing. Two or three generations down the road, as time marches on, our forebears' milestones aren't that important. It's not due to a lack of respect; it's that our own memories take the place of our parents' memories in our consciousness.
How many in the Greatest Generation commemorated the Battle of Gettysburg? How many "remembered the Maine"? How many in my generation even gave a thought to the Lusitania? How many late Baby Boomers know what the Gulf of Tonkin Incident was?
I will never forget November 22, 1963...or July 20, 1969...but I daresay those dates mean nothing to Gen X-ers or Millenials. College seniors today have no memory of the 9/11 attacks...
The Japanese Fleets that attacked on December 7th were comported in Hiroshima.
Nagasaki was where Admiral Yamamoto made his home.
Nagasaki was where Admiral Yamamoto made his home.
I have told this true story here before. So Please excuse me. But it's a part of my life. I was playing in my room this day in 1941. I was 10 years old. My father came in & said the Japs just bombed Pearl Harbor!. I did not know where Pearl Harbor was & said so. Dad told me were were at war. 10 years later I worked for Ma Bell and worked with 3 guys that were in the Navy and were at Pearl when the attack happened. All were on different ships & survived the war. All were my friends and all are gone now.
Home ported not comported
