Never Forget Pearl Harbor, the Day That Will Live in Infamy

Today is the anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack, a “day which will live in infamy.” The US military ignored warnings saying the Japanese might attack until it was too late. As terrible as the tragedy seems looking back on it, I can only imagine how disastrous it seemed to people at the time, particularly to those who lost family in the attack. It shattered the illusion that Americans were safe on their own soil, and it thrust us into World War II.

Recently, I heard somebody mention the Pearl Harbor attacks, and say “never again.” But do we really mean it? This time the enemy did not bomb a naval base in an open act of war. This time the enemy bought our politicians, and infiltrated our universities, and took away all of our manufacturing. I am speaking, of course, of the Chinese Communist Party. 

So, like the men who rushed into battle in the Mexican-American War shouting “remember the Alamo,” will we remember the murder of Americans by refusing to allow our foreign enemies to destroy us from within?