The Day That Will Live In Infamy

[RestoreGore]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061206/ap_on_re_us/pearl_harbor_remembered

I think we should look to this as an example now regarding carrying hate in our heart for an entire people and the effects of that on the world.

I went to the Arizona about 15 years ago and it was the most haunting experience of my life. You could actually hear the men's souls from below calling to you, and I cried. I will never, ever forget it.

http://www.umkc.edu/lib/spec-col/ww2/PearlHarbor/fdr-speech.htm

You can read FDR's Day of Infamy speech at this link, plus see other features of the times. I hope some day we actually learn from this, but I fear our children will know nothing but war as well, because we still have not.

[ChazII]

1. What were those voices saying?

Just curious to know if we received the same message. One of my friend's grandfather was at Pearl Harbor that day. Sadly he passed away recently.

[RestoreGore]

3. It was an eerie feeling...

Being out there on the memorial with it so quiet, it was as if you could hear them say help me. Sorry for your loss.

[izzie]

2. Funny I recall the day in this way

I was 7 but I recall my father sitting on a stool right in front of our living radio and telling me not to talk as he wanted to hear the President. We were going to war. My father was to old and my mother was very ill so he did not go in, but for the rest of the war it was just a way of life. I guess I was to young to see a change it just was how we lived. When you grew up in it all about you it seems normal. After 45 was what seemed odd. I could then see the change in life. Not sure if it was the end of war or mother's death. Also the world was sort of at a world war since I was born and I can recall seeing news reels on bombing. But I guess that has been history at all times. People seem to like wars as they have so many of them.

[RestoreGore]

4. Isn't that the truth

For all of the leaders who have ever said peace, they have tripled war. At that time my parents were both in their early twenties, and my dad enlisted in the Army. Funny and actually sad that we still live that way today, and based on trends I don't think we are going to see a change anytime soon. I often wonder how many dead it would actually take to stop war, but the answer I get now is not one I want to hear.