Those Who Forget Are Doomed to Repeat

December 7, 2008...5:43 pm

Those Who Forget Are Doomed to Repeat

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Sixty-seven years ago today, the Japanese conducted a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor that changed the nation, and the world, forever. The clip below combines footage from the Japanese Imperial Navy, the US, and some cheesy re-enactments to provide a compelling reminder of the destruction that day:

Almost 3,000 died that day in a war they didn’t know they were in. That has its own parallels to 9/11. Let’s remember all Americans who died in cowardly sneak attacks today, especially those who gave their lives 67 years ago as a painful beginning for the modern American nation.