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Wednesday
Rembering Pearl Harbor
"Pearl Harbor - December 7, 1941" -- an event which inspired a united nation to adopt a new slogan, "Remember Pearl Harbor," just as the nation adopted a similar slogan 105 years earlier in the year 1836: "Remember the Alamo." On that day, March 6, 1836, 2000 Mexican soldiers attacked the Alamo, defended by 189 American men. The result, at the end of that day, was recorded as 1600 Mexicans, and 189 Americans killed in action.
The recorded results of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor at the end of the day, December 7, 1941, included 5 of America's 8 battleships moored there destroyed, with the other 3 seriously damaged, other ships and the Hawaii based air force planes were also destroyed, and the number of American deaths exceeded 2,400.
Assuming that a person should have been at least 12 years old on that date in order to appreciate to the full what had happened, only those who are past 75 years of age today can really remember the attack on Pearl Harbor. Todays news commentators, the "talking heads" on TV -- most of them, at least -- can evaluate that event only by the reports they have read or the films they have seen. They have no idea whatsoever of how the American people felt and reacted to Roosevelt's defined "day of infamy."