Already Forgetting Pearl Harbor
Posted by Ben Thu, 08 Dec 2005 11:23:00 GMT
As I was driving home from school today, I flipped the radio over to KSL at the top of the hour while I waited for Glenn Beck to start on KNRS. I caught up with the national news via the short hourly ABC news broadcast when a story started that I thought would be a short memorial that this was the anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack. Instead this is what I get (paraphrased):
“Today is a day remembered by the world war 2 generation, the kind you remember where you were when you heard the news. But tomorrow is day remembered be another generation. Dec 8th, the day John Lennon was shot.”
The story then went on to quote movie stars talking about the tragedy, and how the world was never the same.
Maybe I’m alone in this, but I really think they could’ve saved that story for tomorrow, when the anniversary actually happens. Today should be about remembering an event that plunged the country into a world war. A war that this generation is quickly forgetting.
I remember that day. John Lennon was one of the Beatles and since I was a confirmed Beach Boys fan, it didn't seem that important then, and certainly doesn't today. Comparing the two issues and calling the John Lennon shooting a defining moment is a bit over the top. As a baby boomer, Pearl Harbor affected my personal life a lot more than John Lennon ever did, and I suspect that it is the same for your generation if anyone really cared to research it a bit.