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Clearing the Browser Tabs – Remembrance Tuesday Edition

Jimmie | December 7, 2010 | Comments (1)

Sixty-nine years ago today, thousands of men and women, some soldiers and some civilians, were fishing up breakfast, looking forward to a relatively relaxing Sunday morning in Hawaii. Over 2400 of them did not live to see lunchtime. The Japanese attack on the fleet at Pearl Harbor was a complete surprise and an operational success. Their plans sank eight of the most powerful warships in the world and crippled a vital base of operations. They thought they had delivered a hard enough blow to the United States that they could then control the Pacific unchallenged.

They were wrong.

Several of the battleships damaged, but not sunk, in the attacks were back in operation as early as February of the next year. Five of them, the West Virginia, Maryland, Tennessee, California, and Pennsylvania, fought at the Battle of Leyte Gulf not even three years after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Sleeping giant indeed.

I want to remember not only those who died in the attack on Pearl Harbor but also those who lived and turned our nation’s effort to winning a war that, 69 years ago, did not seem particularly winnable. America did some incredible things in her defense of liberty — recovering from the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor was only the first.

And now, links!

Elizabeth Scalia, better known to readers of The Shack as The Anchoress, wrote an excellent piece on God’s flexible and remarkable love. Even if you’re not particularly religious, I think you will find it edifying.
It’s easy to look tough on immigration if you deal in funny numbers.
Ed Driscoll: “C’mon Feel the Hate”.
It’s definitely time for a short Tea Party victory lap.
Cuba is still ruled by brutal tyranny. That’s worth remembering.
It’s not ironic that a bunch of people who hate labels would call their group “No Labels”. It’s not even ironic that those people would then start to label people who speak in ways they do not like as agents of hate. Silly and childish, yes. Ironic, no.
Remember the so-called “War on Science” during the Bush administration? Well guess what’s happening in the Obama administration.
Speaking of garbage science, it turns out that whole “the seas will rise three feet” cry of alarm was bunk.
Anyone who knows me well at all knows I’m a fan of the group Chicago, or at least of the group before, say they fell into the Aerosmithian Rut of Eternal Balladizing. My friend Jim wrote a review of what he calls “arguably, the last ‘real’ Chicago album”. There’s a lot to like, both in the review and the album.