{"id":53686,"date":"2022-12-07T14:05:22","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T14:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53686"},"modified":"2022-12-07T14:05:22","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T14:05:22","slug":"greatest-generation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53686","title":{"rendered":"Day of Infamy … and pride"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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As a general rule I take every opportunity available to me to salute my favorite veteran, but sadly I fell short this past Veterans Day.<\/p>\n

Thus, I will make up for it today by saluting my favorite vet \u2014 my dad \u2014 on Pearl Harbor Day. Yes, there is a clear connection between them.<\/p>\n

President Roosevelt asked Congress the next day after the \u201cdate which will live in infamy\u201d to declare war on \u201cthe Empire of Japan.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dad didn\u2019t wait for the president\u2019s message. Dad, my grandparents and his six brothers and sisters were listening to the news that Sunday after the attack on Pearl Harbor. I would learn much later what happened next.<\/p>\n

Dad walked out of the house in Portland, Ore., ventured downtown and sought \u2014 on that very day \u2014 to enlist in the Marine Corps. The USMC office was closed. So, not to be deterred, Dad walked across the hall and joined the Navy.<\/p>\n

Yes, on that very day that the nation was stunned into disbelief over what happened to our fighting men in Hawaii, Dad decided to get into the fight.<\/p>\n

On that day, the Greatest Generation was born and my father was among the first of the 16 million Americans who suited up for battle.<\/p>\n

The Navy would send Dad to Europe to fight the Nazis and the Italians, who also had declared war on the United States. He fought with valor aboard ship in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations, enduring incessant bombardment from enemy aircraft.<\/p>\n

It has been written that the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor only succeeded in \u201cawakening a sleeping giant and filling him with a terrible resolve.\u201d No truer words could have been put down in that moment.<\/p>\n

A tiny fraction of the 16 million Americans who joined the fight are still with us. Dad died a long time ago, but I remember and honor his service to the nation with the deepest pride that a son can have.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been 81 years since, in the words of President Roosevelt, \u201cthe dastardly attack\u201d changed the world forever. May none of us ever forget the sacrifice of those who answered the call to arms.<\/p>\n

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As a general rule I take every opportunity available to me to salute my favorite veteran, but sadly I fell short this past Veterans Day. Thus, I will make up for it today by saluting my favorite vet \u2014 my dad \u2014 on Pearl Harbor Day. Yes, there is a clear connection between them. President … Continue reading Day of Infamy … and pride<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[8198,5958],"class_list":["post-53686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-news","tag-pearl-harbor-day","tag-wwii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53687,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53686\/revisions\/53687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}