Posted by
Defend America on Monday, December 07, 2009 7:06:22 AM
To be honest, I even forgot about today's importance, until I was looking at my cell phone's date and realized today is December 7th, The Attack on Pearl Harbor. Today, 68 years ago, we suffered an attack on our home soil. It was
considered the worst attack on our country until the September 11
attacks. December
7, 1941, our navy base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, was under attack from
the Japanese. It began our involvement in World War Two. Even though
the United States did not show anything to make the Japanese threatened
they attacked the United States so they would stay out of the Pacific
and prevent the U.S. from being involved in their expansion. It was one
of the most brazen attacks in which the Japanese navy attacked the
United States early in the morning and without warning. The United
States Navy at Pearl Harbor was ill prepared to attack back that day.
The Japanese Navy attacked just before 8 am and then attacked again
close to nine on a Sunday morning. Nobody
was ready to go to war; people were going to church, or sleeping in
because after all it was a Sunday. That day, the United States lost
2,403 military personnel and 1,178 were injured. It was not only
military personnel who died that day, but also citizens; 68 civilians
were killed. Some things in the world have changed and some have not.
Japan is a great ally, Nazi Germany, Mussolini, and Stalin are no
longer, but some things have not changed. We still live in a dangerous
world and that can not be forgotten. Radical Islamic extremism wants to
do our allies and us harm and that cannot be tolerated. The United
States has to do everything in its power to stop these people from
killing other people because of their evil ideology. We must
stay on the offense against radical Islam until it is defeated. We must
never forget the Pearl Harbor attacks just as much as we must never
forget the September 11 attacks. They are an important part of our
history and to forget them suggests that we forget those who lost their
lives that day and that we have just "gotten over" those attacks. So
today we remember all those that lost their lives and I say one more
time we must never forget.