Posted: 12/7/2011 3:34:13 AM EDT
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I just reminded my 10 year-old son that today is the 70th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Listening to the radio and watching the news this morning there has been no mention of it anywhere. Oddly, I've heard multiple discussions about Justin Bieber in news reports, but NOTHING about the significance of today. We're doomed. |
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Always been a downer of a day for me. Despite my handle, I'm not Japanese but Oahu-born Fil-Am saddened by how little December 7th seems to resonate with modern Americans.
Watched Tora, Tora, Tora last night. Tonight, watching the Great Raid and getting drunk on San MIguels, thinking of the holes torn from both sides of my family tree during the campaign that began 10 hours after the Pearl raid. And thanking God that my father lived through that occupation. A good man, he never passed on his residual anger, but did teach us to remember and respect our dead. Now teaching the same to my children. 
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Just FYI, there are some pretty good movies on the subject of WWII on TCM and Fox Movie Channel tonight.
Some are pretty old and maybe even unheard of by some, but I have seen them and they are pretty good. Task Force To The Shores of Tripoli Air Force The Longest Day They Were Expendable There were probably some good ones on earlier and, if so, I missed them. |
| The history channel had an awesome show on last night. I didn't have opportunity to watch all of it, but it's on the dvr so I can watch it tonight. |