Remembering Pearl Harbor Day is mixed for this Navy brat. I used to live on Oahu, and used to go to dirt track races just down the road from the bay, used to go to school at Schofield Barracks. I was there in the mid-’60s when it was easy to find people who were there as adults or kids, so I heard many first-hand accounts of the attack as a young child.
But I’m also a student of history, and know it wasn’t supposed to be a sneak attack, that the Japanese Embassy in DC had fired their American typist in anticipation of the war and the Ambassador himself hunted and pecked the declaration of war to be delivered to FDR an hour before the attack that ended up not getting completed until after the attack was finished. So, many mixed feelings
In Remembrance, Opus the Unkillable Badass
Witch on a Bicycle 
As a Brit, all I can say is thank god the Japanese were so stupid. We’d been at war 15 months by the time America joined and the Battle of the Atlantic had nearly brought us to the brink of starvation.
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