It was 62 years ago today...

Rob Perkins writes:

On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 17:31:49 -0000, "ShawnD2112"
wrote:

I'll chime in here and ask my fellow American countrymen what year the Nazi
party rose to power.

1933. And I have to say, "na und?", because I suspect I'm
statistically unique among Americans for knowing it.

Reasonably likely. I thought 1933, but I already know I'm
statistically unique in a lot of ways myself (love the phrase,
incidentally).

Pearl Harbor Day is well-remembered because we've just recently lost
the people who heard about it on the radio as a big shock (and not all
of them, there are still some around). The coming to power of the
Nazis wasn't the same sort of immediate shock, so far as I can tell
from reading histories (I wasn't there at the time; either time).

That is to say, the memory value of Pearl Harbor has exceeded its
historic importance for the past 50 years, but is now declining
rapidly.
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