Pearl Harbor.

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  1. Terry O'Keefe

    Terry O'Keefe Well-Known Member Administrator

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    Yesterday was the 75th anniv....it's a long time in the past now and there are fewer and fewer people around who were alive when it happened. It seems like it's fading as a living American Event because it's history to many american's.

    I wonder how many under 30 if you asked them to name the month/day/year for Pearl Harbor could do it? I'll bet it's way less than those of us over 50.

    But I guess this is the way things are, History is real to those who experienced it, but fades as that group dies off. Gettysburg, I couldn't give you the m/d/y for that. Surrender at Appomatox, Yorktown, etc same. I know about them as events but can't really put a particular time on them

    We all know the 4th of July, sure...again how many Jay Walk All-Stars could come up with the year.
     
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    I could give you Gettysburg but not Appomatox or Yorktown.
     
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    If you watch the Jesse Watters street interviews on FOX you know that most young people can't name the town they are standing in. Most think the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor.
     
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    The new leader of the Democratic Party believes that the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor. He is Congressman Keith Ellison. He a black Muslim, a far lefty and he's the new chairman of the DNC...

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