A Day of Remembrance

My heart warmed today actually seeing an American Flag at half-staff in remembrance of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor 70 years ago. Recently, there is a move to erase the memory of that horrific event, lest we promote “racism.” Let's not forget the militarization of Japan during the early 1900's. The Japanese naval victory over the Russian fleet in 1905. The treaties in 1921 and 1922 with Japan, as the world slowly acknowledged the growing military monster. The Rape of Nanking in the 1930's would be forgotten if it had not been filmed by Germans. The government of Japan still denies it happened. Let's not forget that Japanese naval forces were already launched and steaming towards Pearl Harbor, while their diplomatic delegation in Washington DC was assuring our President, to the last hour, that they would not attack. Throughout the war they were an excessively cruel enemy, and required the nuclear equivalent of a silver bullet to end the carnage. After spending 20 years defending our nation and living in Japan for a year, it galls me to hear on the news today that our President's children ate Japanese food at their school today. Somebody in the school should be fired. Any other day is fine. Let's remember history as it actually happened and make common sense decisions to deal with it. We have a growing militaristic menace in Asia right now, called China. As a people can we not even stand up to the passive-aggressive misfits in our midst that get their jollies by feeding school kids Japanese food on Pearl Harbor Day? With that kind of thinking, the American Dream will be erased from our memory also, as we sit in our Japanese cars, obeying Shariah Law, and paying taxes to the Chinese Communist government.  Are there any men left in our society?  --Ben Kuykendall