Monday, December 7, 2015

Pearl Harbor Remembered

Today, December 7, is the 74th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor by naval aviators of the Empire of Japan. President Franklin D. Roosevelt memorably called it:
A day that will live in infamy.
We need not to forget. While we're at it, let's also remember the Japanese perpetrators of the Bataan Death March, the rape of Nanking, and other atrocities. Japan briefly conquered most of Eastern and Southern Asia, leaving many enduring enemies in the occupied lands.

Each year on this day I thankfully remember FDR's successor - Harry Truman - who had the guts to do what was necessary at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He shortened the war and saved perhaps 100,000 GI lives, maybe one or more of your ancestors.