Before there was the Islamic attacks of 9/11, there was the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. That infamous attack happened on December 7, 1941 - 70 years ago today.
They are getting a little slower in their step, but there are still survivors of that day. The Today show interviewed one of them, who was an 18-year old swabbie at the time. Click here to read his account of that "Day of Infamy."
I was born in 1972, so I missed the 30th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, however, I distinctly remember being 9-years old and sitting at the dinner table on the evening of December 7, 1981 as I watched a lengthy nightly news story on the 40th anniversary of the Japanese attack. Time flies.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free... it expects what never was, and never will be." -Thomas Jefferson
1 comment:
Good for the Today show putting that up. . .
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