Because all is quiet in our home front here at DK5 with the absence of any mention of “the day of infamy” as we recall Pearl Harbor today. If there is anyone who has written about that day I apologize to you. I find it offensive that most do prefer to engage in the Sanders/Hillary tug of war as opposed to the one war where brave men and women fought and died protecting the very right you seem to enjoy today in yours own political wars here in the community.
Scenes like this one below brought a diary I wrote in 2013 about Conversations on the day of infamy in which I pointed out the recollection of a then young boy in 1941 and what I saw and heard the horrendous screamings that dark night back in San Antonio, Texas.
It was on this day 71 years ago that on the morning of December 7, 1941, the Japanese air force of its Impiral Military launched a surprise air attack on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor. The howling hysterical screams of horror coming into my sleeping conscious awoke me to find a back door neighbor in total shock and wanting to alert the folks that the enemy was on our soil, murdering our sons and daughters.
It was a day that resulted in bringing our own men and women to stand up and for all time demostrate what is was to be brave. At 7:55 a.m. Hawaii time (12:55 p.m. EST) on December 7, 1941, Japanese fighter planes attacked the U.S. base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, launching one of the deadliest attacks in American history, 2,403 Americans were killed and 1,178 others wounded seriously.
It was this dramatic and horrendous attack on our soil that brought great men and women during that time to join together to defend not only the country but defend our very own basic human rights that today some men and women fight and defend their right to deny those very principles and basic human rights.
O.K. I am editing this diary. I had difficulties navigating the buttons to insert links.
As I was saying above. In my linked diary of 2013 I wrote of how this country came together and responded to Japan`s attack on Pearl Harbor. In those days we had the true brave men and women who joined forces either in volunteering or going before the draft to be inducted in the military.
One of the many famous and rich celebrities that I remember joining the Army to defend the very rights that many today have forgotten was Joe Louis, the Black Heavy weight boxing champion of the world. Another was Elvis Presley and I could go on and on to show who the true brave Americans were in those days.
Sadly, it seems that mostly the Republican party of today is fighting to defend not the basic rights that our ancestors and possibly relatives who gave up their lives to protect, but are fighting to protect their right to deny those of us those very rights.
It is very discouraging to be an American today for many people I know. I have read some state that fact here on the website. It has been 71 years that we lost so many of our great heros that I find it offensive that some find it so easy to forget.
I can understand that many here were not born during Pearl Harbor and what followed but history has been clear and it is written in stone that “this should never happen again”. But it appears that it will happen if demagogues like the Republican presidential candidates succeed and make it to the White House.
It can happen again!