The LuLac Edition #4, 635, December 7th, 2021

 PEARL HARBOR @ 80 

 

Today we co,commemorate the 80th anniversary of Pearl Harbor. 

The attack on Dec. 7, 1941, shook a country that had been so focused on World War Two in Europe that it had lost sight of the threat posed by Japan at the time. The attack killed 2,390 Americans, and the United States declared war on Japan the next day. The bombing was famously dubbed "a date which will live in infamy" by then-U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The United States defeated Japan in August 1945, days after U.S. atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed hundreds of thousands of civilians.

Today there are less than 41 veterans who will attend the ceremonies. One wonders if the political and social climate of today existed back then would anyone barely noticed.