“On December 7th, 1941, a Day which Will Live in Infamy” - Cat Rotator’s Quarterly
What is the lesson of Pearl Harbor, other than not to park all your ships and planes so close together that a few bombing and strafing runs can take all of them out? I don’t know. I have a few ideas, but I’ll leave that to the dedicated naval historians and military historians, who can […]
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It has been 76 years since these events took place. Most of the generation that saw it first hand, that heard that famous speech, are gone. Today too few seem to remember, or care.
Two of my great uncles were in the Army during WWII.
Martin, the oldest, was already in when the Empire of Japan attacked. If I read the papers correctly, he was just starting basic. He would go on to England and later to North Africa. He never spoke of the war in my presence.
I don’t know when younger brother William joined. All I know is one small bit of information he told me; he spent most of the war in DC.
I didn’t know in my youth how special these men were. Today it is too late to tell them.
To Martin and William Simpson, Alexander Alvarado (my brother-in-law’s father) and the thousands of other young men who fought in that war: Your spirits are honored.
(regrettably, I do not have a picture of Uncle Bill's headstone.)
May we never forget!