Has anyone even noticed that the 70th anniversary of Pearl Harbor is coming soon?

[bluestateguy]

I think that after all the survivors are gone, December 7 will scarcely be mentioned anymore.

[hlthe2b]

1. As ignorant as many Americans already are re: history...

that is a given...

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. Oh great. So now there's a war on December 7th.

I don't have time for two wars in December!

[lynne]

3. I wouldn't bet on it -

- Lot's of children of survivors and WWII vets around. Not to mention those that are interested in Military History. I've been to Pearl Harbor twice and those there were mostly younger - not WWII vets.

Considering that this year we're commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, I don't think that Pearl Harbor will be gone from our memories any time soon.

[MADem]

4. That's often the case....but there are plenty of survivors, still.

And often the children of survivors are invested in military memorials, so it might hang on for awhile, yet.

It's true that we don't get round the clock coverage about the anniversaries of older significant events, like, say the end of the Civil War.

[Synicus Maximus]

5. In about 3 months.

[Brother Buzz]

6. It soon will register somewhere above "Remember the Maine" just below "Remember the Alamo"

Unless you're from Texas I suspect.

[patrick t. cakes]

9. + 1

well said, and true.

[krispos42]

7. I thought that movie came in in 2001?

;-)

[The Backlash Cometh]

8. 9/11 is the new Pearl Harbor.

Actually, I don't think it will entirely fade into history. Not until those of us who remember that generation are gone.

[Major Hogwash]

10. Yes, but it will not be remembered the way today was even this year.

They want to put it behind us, and forget about it, cover it up, too many problems still linger on about it.

Besides, we've still got all those anniversaries from the Civil War to "celebrate".

[BiggJawn]

11. In George "The Talking Pimple" Will's column Friday...

The King of the Douchebuckets wrote that he pulled up the "New York Times" for December 8th 1951, and there was one paragraph on the front page about Pearl Harbour. The previous day, they ran a photo of the "Arizona" burning on the front page, and that was about the extent of the coverage. And this was just 10 years after.

Based on that, I'd say it's a wonder anybody remembers at all what happened at Pearl Harbour 70 years ago.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/sept-11s-self-inflicted-wounds/2011/09/08/gIQAfjm5FK_story.html

[tblue37]

14. They didn't do memorial porn back then the way they do now.

Partly it's because they need a lot more cheap and easy emo stuff to fill the airwaves and print media with now.

[name not needed]

12. Are we gonna get 2 weeks of war porn for that one too?

[tblue37]

13. My father was there. He was a 19-year-old airman at the time. nt

[Liberal_in_LA]

15. He must have interesting stories to tell. My dad was in the military at the time, he's still living

[tblue37]

16. Daddy died of a stroke in 1992--a year after he made car trip for a reunion with

the guys he had served with during the war who were still alive. He was 71.

He didn't talk about Pearl Harbor at all until he was interviewed for a newspaper article on one of the anniversaries. I think he felt somewhat flattered to be interviewed for the article, and that opened him up a bit.

[nadinbrzezinski]

17. My husband's uncle was volunteered for subs

He was a torpedo man. Funny thing his last day in the navy was december 7, at Pearl.

So he went from surface to subs. my hubby has those dolphins, made from pig iron from one of the ships. His uncle sent them when my husband earned his dolphins.