Harbors
December 7th. In any year, in the United States, it is memorialized.
Just what is memorialized?
Memory. . . . . . What is it? Memory of What? For what?
Of course. We mourn. the loss.
Veterans of the U.S. military who were alive at the time, who experienced it, must remember it, perhaps simply to honor their friends and fellow military friends who perished, or whose lives were maimed.—But . . . . . . .
Pearls, Harbors, and Decembers. 2015
It may be 2015, but seventy-four years, seventy-four Decembers, does not make a difference when it comes to the formations of nations attached to war and devastation. A moral wrong, according to the official records, was to have been done, making the United States the victim of a vicious Japanese race that attacked the pure and always correct United States. This is how war-memory is formed.
PEARL HARBOR continued
For another angle, see my Pearl Harbor commentary from my Personal Blog: Ainoko, from last year’s December 7th posting:
http://ainoko.wordpress.com/2011/12/06/on-pearl-harbor-day-december-7th-2/
My Thoughts on December 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor
First, I want to say that Pearl Harbor exists today and people live and work there. But is December 7, 1941 the only way people think of that specific place, culture, time?
