2017-12-07

Pearl Harbor Day

Attack on Pearl Harbor    
Today is National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day observed each December 7 in memory and honor of the 2,403 US citizens killed in the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on December 7, 1941.

It was on the anniversary of that day my mother chose to lay my biological father to rest — but it really had no tangible meaning for me personally until that time.

It's funny how things can change so abruptly and profoundly in the minds of people.

I now remember that particular Pearl Harbor day as though it were yesterday.