{"id":177043,"date":"2025-12-07T07:00:46","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T12:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=177043"},"modified":"2025-12-06T19:04:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T00:04:46","slug":"a-brief-reminder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=177043","title":{"rendered":"A brief reminder"},"content":{"rendered":"
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USS West Virginia Burning in Pearl Harbor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today marks the 84th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. December 7, 1941.<\/p>\n

Many of us remember the Nine-Eleven attack on September 11, 2001. It killed 2,977 people, primarily because so many workers were trapped in the World Trade Center buildings.<\/p>\n

Pearl Harbor saw 2,403 killed, the vast majority of whom (2, 000+) were Naval personnel.<\/p>\n

I would argue that the Pearl Harbor was actually worse, not just because of the ships sunk but because our population in 1941 was around 143,000,000 and by 2001 it had ballooned to 284,000,000, so we lost a greater share of our people in 1941.<\/p>\n

Eight battleships damaged or sunk.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, all three Pacific Fleet aircraft carriers were out of port. Also thankfully, our ships in harbor were sunk in relatively shallow water so that some could be raised to fight again.<\/p>\n

Japan declared war after the raid, akin to someone sucker-punching you and then declaring the fight was on. For that alone, many today still have no remorse for the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. (Like the man said to the Bug – “You don’t start any, there won’t BE any.”)\u00a0 Japan failed to heed that, to their cost.<\/p>\n

Arguably a day of heroism. Nonetheless, one of the saddest days in American history. Not for the highest casualty count – the Galveston flood of 1900 may have killed several times as many, and we will never know how many died. Military deaths? Over 3600 at Antietam, 2,500 on D-Day. But sneak attacks resonate more than planned-for battles.<\/p>\n

Many of us had relatives, fathers, mothers – who were pulled into the war that Japan dragged us into. Think about what they could have done with four productive years not fighting.\u00a0 Think of the ones you never met because they didn’t come back. Remember all those cemeteries overseas filled with white crosses.<\/p>\n

Take a few moments and remember.<\/p>\n

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