Tomorrow is Pearl Harbor Day

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Officially, the day is called “National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.” It’s been 75 years since Pearl Harbor was bombed by the Japanese. Such a sad memory in this country. 2,403 Americans died that day and 1,178 others were wounded and for what? The Japanese Imperial Navy was trying to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from interfering with their plans to seize territories of the U.S., the U.K. and the Netherlands in Southeast Asia. The attack on Pearl Harbor was judged by the trials that followed to be a War crime, because the attack happened without a declaration of war and without warning. Retaliation was the atomic bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, killing many innocent people, another tragedy in the loss of human life. What a terrible time in history this was. There will be many commemoration events going on tomorrow, I’m sure. There are STILL some survivors of that tragedy who will be honored. I saw on TV yesterday where a few of them were being interviewed. Most of them in their nineties. This is one of the major events that happened in MY lifetime. I was about 6 weeks old when it happened. I can only imagine what my parents thought at that time. And then for the next FOUR years World War II raged on. Sixteen million soldiers served in World War II. Many never came home. My father was too old and my brothers were too young to serve but many young men died. And again, I say, for what?