Pearl Harbor Day and More

Today I honor two anniversaries: one very public occurrence, and another a private remembrance.  The first, of course, is the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on December 7, 1941.  A lot of speculation has been spun indicting the government it had foreknowledge the foreign power would attack.  Regardless, many lives were martyred for our great country.  The attack woke a sleeping giant to enter a worldwide war for freedom.  The current equivalent of Pearl Harbor is the attack on and destruction of the World Trade Center in New York City, New York.  These senseless attacks were more ideological and religious in nature, but appalling none-the-less.  The second anniversary I celebrate is the earning of a black belt in Tae Kwon Do twenty-six years ago.  I was a few weeks away from my sixteenth birthday and in a heck of a lot better shape back then.  I look back in nostalgia as I think how I had mastered a particular martial art.  Wishing I had kept up with my skill set, I have no regrets about the four years I invested in obtaining the goal of black belt.  All of these events are indelibly etched in to my mind because they have all affected me personally.  May these events forever live on in everyone's lives in order to remember those who have greatly sacrificed for our great country.

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