Pearl Harbor Day

There is way too much swirling around in my head this morning. First of all is the snow. There’s not much…just about right…just enough for Anna and I to start our morning with a rousing rendition of “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas.” Well, rousing might be overstating it, but we did give it our best until we realized we couldn’t finish the first verse…so we hummed a bit longer and with smiles on our faces went to breakfast. It was there the radio reminded me that today is December 7. The “day which will live in infamy,” as Roosevelt called it, is now better known as Pearl Harbor Day…and while still observed, it seems with time to be slowly slipping from our collective memories into history. Regardless of your age, if you have the time I would recommend a few minutes visiting this link. You’ll find historic photos of the devastation which was wrought upon our military base in the Pacific, along with photos of the monuments that our nation has erected in honor of the fallen. http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&rlz=1T4GGLL_enUS329US329&q=dec+7+1941&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=yBkdS6-sOY2yNrTb2PMC&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=7&ved=0CCMQsAQwBg
I bring this up, not because I fear we will forget, but because I wonder what we’ve learned.
As for Anna and I…we will not let this tragedy destroy the spirit of the season…so now, I gotta find the words for “Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow!”