Pearl Harbor

76 years ago today at five minutes to 8 AM in Hawaii the silence, and peace, was broken by the sounds of approaching planes.  Those stationed on the military bases and ships looked up never expecting what was about to happen. Imperial Japan struck first using planes from six aircraft carriers to launch a surprise […]
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Hiroshima

President Obama went and visited the site of the first Atomic bomb drop, and only one of two dropped in anger, Hiroshima. Personally I view it long since past for a US President to have made a visit to the site.  It is a moment which links two countries unlike any two in the world.  But […]
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