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...this week, to find ourselves in October. A new month, at least. It will be even better to get to 2002. Calendar hurdles that take us further down the track from 9/11/01 are good things. December 7 won't be easy this year, as the 60th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor bombing will bring back all of this "Day of Infamy" stuff. But at least the movie stiffed, and isn't lingering in the Cineplexes as a reminder...
...Even in the face of this, we haven’t seen the calls for dismissal of civil liberties that we did years ago,” he said, referring to when Japanese-Americans were rounded up in detainment camps around the country in response to the atttack on Pearl Harbor...
...President George W. Bush was delivering what many have called an inspiring speech to a joint session of Congress. After it was over, pundits compared it to the epochal performance of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904 and a former Crimson executive, following the attack on Pearl Harbor. For me, however, it felt shallow...
...Right after Pearl Harbor one of Franklin Roosevelt's officials saw the White House glowing in the bright moonlight and suggested it be painted black. The Army wanted it done in camouflage colors. FDR, who understood the power of great symbolism, ignored such nonsense and insisted the White House stay white and put up the Christmas lights for the world...
...fact, in his regular conversations with his son, No. 41 has stressed his concern that the Muslims in the U.S. might be abused. In the back of his mind is the internment of Japanese after Pearl Harbor. As an 18-year-old naval aviation cadet back then, he did not give the issue much thought. He does today and judges that internment wrong...