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12/07/2003 Archived Entry: "'A day which will live in infamy...'"
'A day which will live in infamy...'
Thanks to reader ROGNM for the reminder. See you tomorrow.
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I was at my dad's today for our weekly Sunday meal. He was 19 when the attack on Pearl Harbor occurred. It's interesting to hear his recollections of that day. He was driving back to Brooklyn from visiting a friend at an army base on Long Island. He stopped his '37 Buick at a gas station and the manager told him that the "Japs" attacked us at Pearl Harbor. My dad never even heard of the place. The next day he, and about 25,000 other guys from the old neighborhood, joined the navy.
There are many similarities between 9-11 and Dec 7th. There are also many differences. Perhaps the biggest difference is in the quality of our leadership. Our presidents have shrunk from 30-foot Olympian titans to cartoonish, gibbering, pathetic midgets.
I recall all too ruefully 9-11. My coworkers and I huddled around the TV in the conference room and saw that second plane hit the South Tower. Panic and grief filled that room. The president came on. Like frightened children we held our breaths waiting for his confident, reassuring words. And out came nonsense and gibberish. Everyone in the room, and I mean everyone, let out a gasp and a groan of disappointment. The realization hit us all: at a time of supreme crisis the nation was lead by a man utterly out of his depth. It was a frightening epiphany.
How did we sink this low?
Posted by Metropolitan99 @ 12/07/2003 08:53 PM NY
Since I live about three miles from Pearl, I posted FDR's Day of Infamy" speech today.
Posted by Linkmeister @ 12/08/2003 01:17 AM NY
