Remembering Pearl Harbor

December 7th, 2008

December 7, 1941 is a day that still lives in infamy.

Before World War II, the US was an isolationist nation struggling through a protracted economic disaster, mostly uninterested in foreign entanglements. After this attack, America began its quick march to becoming a superpower projecting its might around the world. Pearl Harbor provided the impetus for that transformation, with a nation vowing never to be taken by surprise again — and succeeding for almost 60 years in preventing it. [...]

Almost 3,000 died that day in a war they didn’t know they were in. That has its own parallels to 9/11. Let’s remember all Americans who died in cowardly sneak attacks today, especially those who gave their lives 67 years ago as a painful beginning for the modern American nation.

Amen.

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