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The date that has lived to some degree or another in infamy, occurred 70 years ago<\/a> on a sunny Sunday morning.\u00a0 Three thousand Americans would never see the following Monday.\u00a0 Almost half of them stationed on the USS Arizona.\u00a0 The combination of treachery, of Japan\u2019s planning of the attack while in negotiations, the evil of the Japanese Empire (oft forgotten because of the long shadow of Nazi Germany), and the humiliation and anger that America felt came together in a way never since repeated.\u00a0\u00a0 Japan had hoped for an America\u00a0similar to America c. September, 2001.\u00a0 A soft, foppish America full of narcissists who would gladly sell their birthright for the stew of winning an argument over how wrong everyone else is.\u00a0 But what Japan got was a generation weaned in the school of hard knocks, the depression, poverty, and a strong resilience and capability to make much with little.\u00a0 Silly conspiracy theories aside, and taking a moment to look beyond the million things we post-moderns focus on, such as everything America did wrong, it\u2019s a day worth remembering what America did, and what it could do again.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Rest in peace to those men and women who never saw the sun go down on that Sunday so long ago.\u00a0 And thanks to the millions more who risked, and sometimes gave, it all so that I would have the freedom to take everything we have for granted today.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Here is a longer post from last year<\/a>, on the 69th anniversary of the attack.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"