Today is FDR's "date which will live in infamy" -- the Greatest Generation's September 11. How many years did it take before people stopped noting it was December 7th? We're only 6 years gone; did Pearl Harbor take a decade to scar over in the national consciousness? Two?The Japanese aerial photograph above shows Battleship Row during the initial attack. In the foreground, the Oklahoma, California, and West Virginia are taking torpedoes; Hickam Field is burning in the background.
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If you haven't yet, you should check out The War documentary by Ken Burns. It is truly an amazing and horrifying work. I think it is the only thing about WWII that I have ever seen that does not end up glorifying the war in some way.
Some of us still send out commemorative Pearl Harbor Day greetings to the selected few annually.
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