A Date Which Will Live In Infamy

[r_a_l_i_g_h]

Sunday, July 1, 2007 - My little sister (this would be the Younger-Younger one - " Zuzu") had a role in a dance troupe performing at a local Independence Day Celebration designed for raising money and awareness for the USS Oklahoma memorial

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[daynr]

My grandfather survived Pearl Harbor, though he was not posted on the Oklahoma.

I'm not sure how I feel about a memorial dedicated to one of the ships and her crew from that.

Then again, I do think it's an even that deserves recognition/honoring.

[miniglik]

That's interesting (and sad to think about... dying taking that long).

I gave up on any idea of crying quietly or with dignity and just let it flow.

I went to a military ball this year where the guest speaker was the wife of the lieutenant general killed in the September 11th attack on the Pentagon (the highest ranking U.S. military officer killed in action since World War II). She was a good speaker and very moving, and when she got to the parts about not hearing from him in all the confusion in the days following (and finding out his entire office was killed and going to comfort the other wives and family), the whole event became this exercise in self-control for me. I was sitting at a table full of stoic-faced military men, and I didn't want to be the only one crying. (I later found out that the only other woman at the table, herself an officer, was biting her cheek as hard as she could stand to keep from crying.) I don't know what I would have done had there been audio/visual aid, it was bad enough when her voice would