The year of my birth.
A lot of water under the dam.
Official commemoration will be slightly different this year.
More about that after it occurs. We will see.
What can one say about 7 December 1941, The Day that will live in infamy.
The war to end all wars didn’t do the job.
It happened again.
And we have fought plenty of them since.
And are doing so as I write.
What can one say?
Is there a lesson for us today?
Is there a danger of ‘learning’ the wrong lesson?
The answer is yes, the danger is great and some have learned the wrong lesson.
Maybe the leader of our greatest ally in that war of 1941-45 said it best:
I do not hold that we should rearm in order to fight. I hold that we should rearm in order to parley.
And,
Peace will not be preserved by pious sentiments expressed in terms of platitudes or by official grimaces and diplomatic correctitude, however desirable this may be from time to time. It will not be preserved by casting aside in dangerous years the panoply of warlike strength.
The United States, was not ready for 7 December, 1941.
Maybe that is why it happened.
1 comment:
Well said Paul. And it was a Sunday morning this year too....
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