75
YEARS AGO
December
7, 1941, “a date which will live in infamy” was the date of the Japanese
surprise attack on the American Naval Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
Over 3,000 Americans died that day, most of them members of the military, and
many of our finest warships were destroyed, including the battleship USS
Arizona. The Japanese were initially elated over the damage caused to the
American navy, but they soon realized that their ultimate goal had not been
realized. They had not demoralized the American people and destroyed our will
to fight.
Instead, they had only succeeded in
uniting the American people who did not cower in fear, but prepared to go to
war on two fronts. Millions of American soldiers, sailors, and marines, went to
war in Europe and the Pacific not only to defend the freedom of the American people,
but to free the millions who were being oppressed by the Japanese, the German
Nazis, and the Italian Fascists.
American casualties during WW II
totaled over one million with over 405,000 deaths. The entire country mobilized
to support the war effort. There were no anti-war demonstrations, none of our
soldiers were spit on for wearing the uniform of their country, and anyone who
had burned an American flag would have suffered severe consequences at the
hands of their fellow Americans.
Can you imagine what the outcome of WW
II would have been if instead of young Americans going into the military in
mass, or working in defense industries, or otherwise supporting our troops by
consenting to rationing of gasoline, tires, food etc. they would have grabbed
their teddy bears and coloring books and gone to hide in their “safe spaces” so
they could be protected from reality.
Unfortunately, most of the millennials
in our country today don’t remember Pearl Harbor or even World War II. I
recently looked at a common core lesson plan for teaching our children about WW
II and it was unbelievable. The heroism of our military was not mentioned and
none of the military leaders such as Eisenhower, Patton, or Nimitz were named. None
of the major battles were discussed including the invasion of Normandy, the
Battle of the Bulge or Iwo Jima.
The discussions that students were to
engage in were about things like the detention of Japanese Americans, racism
within the military etc. all politically correct subjects for the left people
who are supposedly educating our children. However, this type of misinformation
is not something new. A few years ago I was doing some part time work scoring
essays on student SAT exams. Most of the topics were mundane, but when the
topic dealt with American history I saw some very disturbing things.
For example, some high school students
thought that in WW II we fought Mexico, Spain, or even England. Some also
stated the WW II was started by the United States dropping atomic bombs on
Japan and that led to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. These are just some examples of the fact that
our children are not learning anything about American history and certainly not
about our Constitutional form of government.
At a time when we should be
remembering and honoring the Americans who died 75 years ago at Pearl Harbor,
the concentration of the media and our education system is on excluding Christmas
from public schools, rewriting our history, eliminating patriotism, and
destroying our Constitutional rights. It is time we reverse this.
Michael
Connelly
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