Infamy

Both of my male grandparents served on the west coast during WWII. Seattle and San Diego.

I've been to the site where a Japanese balloon firebomb killed a group of Sunday school kids in Oregon during the war. Poignant. A monument rarely visited.

I've been to the locations of 3 different internment camps for Japanese in Oregon and California. Awestruck and shocked. These places at the time you could just walk right up to and had no restoration or protection. Forgotten history in another decade.

I have and wear a memorial bracelet for a MIA, later listed KIA, serviceman.

Pearl Harbor. Been there, all the tours, all the monuments. Overwhelming feeling of sadness at the loss of life. I cried and didn't try to hide it.

This is not just any other day, and should be remembered. Breed Hill, the Maine, the Alamo, the Lusitania, Pearl Harbor. So many things in American history that should never be forgotten.