On Dec. 8, 1941, this was the front page of the New York Times.
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what a sad, sad day.
The Times article palpitates with the sense of shock, emergency, and loss. It’s quite painful to read, indeed.
December 7th, 1941
The Laughing Wolf has a beautiful must-read post on Pearl Harbor and what it should mean to all of us. Remember long and remember hard the blood price paid, and the down payment made this very day. For at dawn…
Infamy
INFAMY
December 7, 1941.
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My step-dad was living in Hawaii on the 12/7/41. He was just a little boy of course but remembers running into the fields to avoid the bombing and later finding shrapnel from the bombs.
It is always bracing to read the reportage from when pivotal events actually happened. That visceral sense is truer than inevitable decades of revision.