Amazing, an event that ultimately changed all our lives; those of the then living and everyone today took
place on a Sunday morning 73 years ago
today. I am referring to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
I scanned three papers this morning and listened to the TV news and found not one reference to that
date. How quickly we forget. Not even the New York Times had one single word.
Instead the papers are full of crime news, terrorist
attacks, stories of campus rapes either true or false and popular individual’s
sexual misconduct.
Dec. 7 1941 marked the end of our isolationism, a policy
that those who would advocate White Christian supremacy strive to go back to
today and make it our national status.
The ability as a nation to protest the Grand Jury Findings
in Ferguson Missouri, and Staten Island would not exist. Instead if pre-WWII
atmosphere was the mode of the day there would have been military suppression
of every march even if peaceful.
To digress, today Dec. 7, 2014 is a landmark day in as much
that for the first time since the end of the Civil War Reconstruction days
there will not be a Democrat Senator from a Southern State in the new Congress.
The Louisiana incumbent went down to defeat in Saturday’s runoff election.
Hi "olddoc," I'm glad to share that the Wall Street Journal had a front page photo of a memorial service aboard the USS Arizona attended by survivors of the day. Angelo
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