65 Years Later: The Day That Lives In Infamy

December 7, 1941. Sixty five years ago the harsh reality of war came crashing down on the American outpost of Pearl Harbor in Oahu Hawaii. It became known as the day that will live in infamy. Japanese fighters and bombers swept down on Pearl Harbor hoping to destroy the US Navy fleet as it sat at anchor and cripple our ability to stop the Japanese advances in the Asian/Pacific theater. The numbers of survivors from Pearl Harbor are dwindling and this may be the last year that the survivors reunite at Pearl Harbor to remember their comrades who lost their lives that bright and sunny Sunday morning all those years ago and ushered in a global war on a scale and scope no one ever imagined.



Michelle Malkin honors those who were there. Rick Moran revisits the debate over intel and its current day equivalents. Rand Simberg goes one step further and hits the mark.

Here's my post from last year.

UPDATE:
The New York Times has a fascinating look at its archives and news reports that were censored because they could reveal too much information to our enemies. They've opened up their archives to stories that were not run during the war because they could have provided key details to our enemies.

Here's new insight on what the US Navy was doing to rebuild the Navy after Pearl Harbor. For example, here's the massive undertaking to salvage the USS Nevada and the USS California. The USS Olkahoma posed difficult challenges.

Now, only if our media outlets, including the NYT realized that leaks of classified information about programs designed to protect the nation from another terrorist attack during our current war realized that their actions could be just as disasterous, would our nation be more secure against the threats posed by those terrorist groups and their state sponsors including Syria and Iran.

Oh, and it was the censors that kept the stories from running during war. FDR - anti-civil libertarian.

UPDATE:
A video remembrance of the events of the day:


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