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May The Anniversary Of Pearl Harbor Remind Us Of The Gravity Of War, As Our Inept Government Barrels Toward It

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Early on the second Sunday of Advent in 1941, sailors, soldiers, and Marines stationed in Hawaii’s Pearl Harbor were relieving the night watch in their anchored ships’ engine rooms, getting back from breakfast, and signing out of their night shifts. A few minutes before 8:00 a.m., some noticed foreign-sounding aircraft overhead, “flying very low.” As bombs started falling from planes painted with the red circles of Japan’s “rising sun,” sailors onboard the more than 100 ships in the harbor began yelling to the other men onboard, some still in bed or fighting “hangovers from being on pass the night before.”

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