Past Wars and Present and Future Terror

December 7, 1941 … …”the day that will live in infamy” so declared then president of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt. Of course, he was referring to the sneak attack on the United States Navy in Hawaii (not a State at the time), by the Imperial Empire of Japan. Their action plunged the entire world into World War II that was already raging in Europe because of Hitler’s insanity. For the benefit of the modern day uninformed, War in the Pacific, began at Pearl Harbor with a (questionable) surprise attack on our naval fleet in the Pacific. Because the United States’ founding is (was) based on Christian principles, defeated countries, such as Japan, were aided with tremendous amounts of American resources and human support to renew themselves to rejoin world nations in peace. For many years the “…day that will live in infamy” has gone the way of the annals of history. We, rightly, enkindle the bad memories of the many Pacific Campaigns year after year, because we have with us still, Pearl harbor survivors. As life would have it, they, naturally have become fewer and fewer. On a good calendar, the attack on Pearl Harbor now is referred to as Remembrance Day.” In time, I suspect it will become obscure, as most other awful wars. Like most important dates that we should never forget, it will not be known for what happened, just a date, with no one able to adequately explain the event behind it. If you think that this cannot happen, ask young adults about the Korea of 1950, that keeps raising its ugly head in current times. Has any young or mid-aged parent asked, “what is this all about?” Those involved in the global war of WWII are dying out faster than a bullet can hit its target. Soon there will be no one to understand that terrible, horrifying, horrendous, still unbelievable, terror that murdered millions in the horrifically evil schemes of a solitary mad man. Worse still, no one will remember how one man from Austria could terrorize another country, Germany, and make everyone so fearful to obey his madness. Countless joined in his plans of one world order of puritans, and helped him murder their fellow human beings. He did it. It happened. And, not all that long ago. These scars are still showing, but only in some places, and by fewer and fewer people trapped in the horror of the times. A great sadness is that people in America (and possibly most cosmopolitan locations of the world) today do not have the same quality of values as people of only, say, 50years ago. Remembering priceless values in cost of human life so people in general today can continue to care less, is frightening, to say the very least. Frightening for the new generation, not necessarily for those of us that have been through it or vividly remember what our brothers and sisters had to endure. Equally bad is that American History is no longer a school curriculum, has not been for far too many years. Few American young adults and their mid-aged parents know or care little about America’s demanding history. I am not any sort of a prophet, but I recall the wisdom of the past when I say: “Those who forget the past are bound to repeat it.” That in itself is scary to me because the face of war has changed. The Changing Face of War Now, the demand for even more alertness is needed. War is no longer a battlefield event. Despite Iraq and Afghanistan that is proving my point. And despite all of those generals with as many combined stars on their shoulders as there are in the heavens, we have not learned. Vietnam was the last battlefield war, that once again authenticated “War is hell.” Now the enemy is likely to be in your neighborhood with his or her intent on ridding you from the face of the earth. Are you aware of this or are you indifferent to what is happening. If you are indifferent you are unmistakably part of the modern-day, cultural problem we face. Your indifference compounds our problem because our Legislative Government is dumb down to reality. They have gotten so out of what is real that they find good evil and evil good. Whether you consider yourself an infidel or not, makes no difference to your new enemy. Like Hitler causing fear of death, most of the German population joined him. The Muslim radicals want to convert you; will you be converted? They have had years of brainwashing and want you dead. As we should have learned, brainwashing goes on inside and from outside this country. Immigrants are allowed into this country, without security checks, as once upon a time was required, and then allowed to emigrate to regions within this country silently infiltrating right where you are to get their dirty work done. In other words, our own government is complicit, has been cooperating with our new enemy by bringing them inside the country, and, you can say, behind the lines. Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day December 7, 2010 For all military and civilian Pearl Harbor survivors and maimed and wounded personnel, and in memory of our lost brothers and sisters who faced the brunt of the “surprise” attack by the Japanese Empire’s numerous, heavily armed aircraft and miniature submarines sent to destroy the United States Naval Fleet, on an otherwise quiet, unsuspecting Sunday, I invite my fellow Americans to join me today in rendering a generic salute with utmost respect and gratefulness. Our Warriors and Freedoms’ Defenders: United States Navy United States Marine Corps United States Army United States Air Corps (at the time) United States Coast Guard And now, the Joint Special Forces representing each branch of the military (colors representing each branch ->)Salute, Go with God, Bob Soucy, USAF, Retired