Wikipedia article about the Attack on Pearl Harbor Washington Post: Honolulu after Pearl Harbor: A report published for the first time, 71 years later Previous posts about why I care: December 7, 2006: The Passing of a Generation December 7, 2008: I Will Remember December 7, 2010: In Remembrance December 7, 2011: Remembering, 70 Years Later
I don’t know that I’ll be able to do the entire month, but I thought it would be fun to do the December photo challenge I found on Pinterest. You can read all about it here. December 1: Your View Today December 2: Favorite Holiday Movie December 3: Red (I’ll add my photos to my Flickr set here.)
We’re starting a new tradition this year! It will probably take a few years to build up our collection but I’m excited about this. We’ll be reading one children’s Christmas book each day in December, leading up to Christmas! (This will be in addition to daily advent reading of the story of Jesus from the Bible.) I want to make it a fun family activity of reading together and enjoying all the classic Christmas stories that I grew up with,…
Merry Christmas, from our house to yours!
Today marks the 70th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. I take a moment today, as I do each year, to pause in remembrance of the 2400 lives lost that Sunday morning so long ago. According to CNN, 120 survivors are registered to attend the commemoration in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. About 120 Pearl Harbor survivors were registered to attend Wednesday’s ceremony. The gradual loss of the World War II generation has accelerated, and this year, perhaps more than any…