Here it is, the day after the 75th anniversary of
the Japan’s attack on the United States at Pearl Harbor. You may remember that
that attack on the “day that will live in infamy” led to America’s entry into
World War Two.
Sadly, school kids these days are taught disgustingly little
about World War Two in general and particularly about December 7, 1941. As
such, they don’t really know why American president Franklin Delano Roosevelt
referred to it as a forever “infamous” date on the calendar.
I would wager that most American adults under the age of 30 –
unless they’d happen to be history buffs - are equally as uneducated about such
“ancient history.” And, as a result, they probably have little to no idea what
Pearl Harbor Day is about and have little interest in learning it.
Just as tragically, today’s “United” States of America is no
more capable of fighting a War like the Second World War than it is for
successfully colonizing the planet Neptune.
The USA of 1941 quickly abandoned its isolationist follies,
rallied around the flag (“Old Glory”), sacrificed on every front , the
home front especially – rationing tires (rubber), gasoline, wiring and other
copper, food and staples to make food (flour, etc) - all to further America’s
War effort.
Able-bodied men were whisked off into military service and
then off to the War. Able-bodied women stepped into factories, etc to fill
their shoes. Men too old for military service filled Defense jobs right
alongside the women.
Heck, female professional baseball started up to replace men’s
pro ball because almost all the male players were now off in military uniforms
instead of their baseball uniforms. (Remember the Tom Hanks – Gina Davis movie “A
League of Their Own?”)
But…today’s “U” S of A would have to debate the morality of
retaliating militarily to a sneak attack like Pearl Harbor for a decade or so.
Then another decade of lawsuits would be filed by the ACLU claiming violations
of civil rights committed by rationing gas and tires and being limited to only
so many miles of driving your car each week (to/from work mostly), “all for the
War effort.”
And today, patriotism and rallying around the flag wouldn’t
happen in a “U”SA where the academic institutions like that cesspool of idiocy
in Massachusetts - Hampshire College – are too timid to risk offending anyone
by allowing the American Flag (“Old Glory”) to be flown on campus so they
banned flying her and any other flags from campus flagpoles. And many finally
succeeded in driving the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) units off their campuses.
Not only that, but a whole bunch of the liberal academic cesspools
in public education secondary schools (aka public high schools) have banned
military recruiters from participating in campus career days.
No, tragically, today’s “U”SA is no more capable of fighting
another World War Two – let alone
winning it in four years – than it could
fight its way out of a wet paper bag.
How badly we’ve decayed as a country. How far from greatness
our once-great nation has fallen.
Hopefully the Good Lord and president-elect Donald Trump can
begin turning things back around.
