December 7th becomes a smaller part of history as more and more of it becomes paper history instead of living history.
There are hundreds of WW2 vets that die every day. And there are only a small % of the overall still alive. In the same way that WW1, the Civil War and other great American conflicts have become more of an academic thing than it is an event. It wouldn't surprise me for 9-11 to become a relatively unknown blip discussed like we do with the stock market Black Friday, the Battle of New Orleans, and other at the time cataclysmic events that today are just foot notes. At one time the Battle of New Orleans was celebrated with the same enthusiasm as the 4th of July. Today the average American barely knows it happened. And a very small percentage of the public could tell you which war it was in, why it was important, who was the leader of the US forces, and what happened.
Anyone that ever wants to talk WW2 naval history let me know. I am an absolute nerd for it. And every time I think of the loss of life and the sacrifice of that day. And how that opened the Pacific War. I also think of Operation Ten-Go. Where more Japanese sailors were killed than Americans at Pearl. Using more US air power, with more bombs, and more tactics than the Japanese had at Pearl. And the waste of life was just that. It was an operation that was doomed before it even started. It was nothing more than Blood for the sake of the Blood God.
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