{"id":163946,"date":"2024-12-07T07:00:59","date_gmt":"2024-12-07T12:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=163946"},"modified":"2024-12-03T15:50:55","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T20:50:55","slug":"who-remembers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=163946","title":{"rendered":"Who remembers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_86869\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86869\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-86869\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/uss-west-virginia-pearl-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-86869\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">USS West Virginia Burning in Pearl Harbor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Many won&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Remember what? Saturday errands, check the antifreeze, go to that Christmas sale? No, something a long sight more significant.<\/p>\n<p>Eighty-three years ago the United States was attacked at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p>2403 killed. 1178 additional wounded.\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor\">Wiki<\/a><\/p>\n<p>353 Japanese aircraft launched in two waves from 6 carriers lurking below the horizon. We tend to forget that in one seven-hour period, the Japanese launched a multi-pronged attack over thousands of miles, also hitting us in the Philippines, Guam, and Wake Island. Not to be forgotten, the Brits got hit in Malaya, Singapore, and Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p>The attackers fared better than we did at Pearl &#8211; 29 aircraft downed, 5 midget submarines sunk, 129 killed.<\/p>\n<p>Given the trend over the last several years, I would not be shocked to find that most of the mass media ignores it. They certainly did last year. Ancient history, right? Over two generations ago.<\/p>\n<p>It triggered our entry into World War II. Our 419,000 deaths pale beside some of the biggest losers (world wide 70-80 million, a quarter of which came from China and Russia alone.) But they were ours.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_War_II_casualties\">Wiki II<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our kids. Our sons, our daughters.<\/p>\n<p>Remember.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many won&#8217;t. Remember what? Saturday errands, check the antifreeze, go to that Christmas sale? No, something &hellip; <a title=\"Who remembers?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=163946\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Who remembers?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":668,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[478,649],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-none","category-wwii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/668"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}