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I remember Pearl Harbor, tho' I was only 6 at the time.
I remember my cousins and uncles and my dad all being in the war, my big brother, my brother-in-law. I remember in my gut the feeling I had when FDR gave his "day that will live in infamy" speech every time I hear a re-broadcast. I remember rationing and shortages and victory gardens, scarce sugar and toilet paper, and scrap metal drives for the war effort, victory bonds. I remember V-E day and V-J day (victory in Europe, victory in Japan) and people hugging in the streets. I rember the holocaust and the gruesome discoveries that were revealed after the death camps were liberated. I met Jewish families who'd survived, those who'd lost relatives to Aushwich and Buchenwald. My high school sweetheart went to Korea and never returned. I remember Vietnam, and the hell it was on TV, the first broadcast from the front lines. I met Vietnamese people after who talked about the hell they went through under their own regime, about how they slaved and starved and came to America to find the dream. And now we're blasting away at an elusive enemy who may or may not be waiting for our young men in their desert, and my own grandson is about to leave for some god-forsaken battleground.
We haven't forgotten. We haven't forgotten. Nobody with half a heart has forgotten.
posted by
Pat_B
on December 9, 2006 at 5:23 PM
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