Until September 11, 2001, I never really fully appreciated the significance of December 7, 1941. Oh, sure...my parents told me about that dastardly sneak-attack by the Japanese on Hawaii and their recollections of that day, but with hindsight and being the recipient of over-simplified history lessons in high school, I saw the attack as an inevitability--Japan (and Germany) was going to drag America into it the war.
Americans in 1941 didn't think that way, and just as our perception of the world was shattered on 9/11, so was their view of it.
Today in Hawaii, probably for the last time in large numbers, survivors of the Pearl Harbor attacks are gathering to remember what they--and the fallen--suffered.
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