Pearl Harbor was attacked by Japanese planes, in a surprise attack which prompted President Franklin Roosevelt to declare in a speech the following day that December 7th would be “a date which will live in infamy.”
More than seven thousand US citizens
were born December 7, 1941.
About half that many were killed
or wounded at Pearl Harbor that day.
My grandfather was born Fifty-three years earlier.
His son served in the Army, beginning
as a Second Lieutenant, ending as a Lieutenant Colonel
while his daughter struggled to say Grandpop,
setting the precedent for seven younger granddaughters
to shorten the sobriquet to “Pop.”
No matter how awful the events of any day…
no person, or consequence, or connotation
can curse a day and erase the good,
nor quell the evil that has colored a day.
were born December 7, 1941.
About half that many were killed
or wounded at Pearl Harbor that day.
My grandfather was born Fifty-three years earlier.
His son served in the Army, beginning
as a Second Lieutenant, ending as a Lieutenant Colonel
while his daughter struggled to say Grandpop,
setting the precedent for seven younger granddaughters
to shorten the sobriquet to “Pop.”
No matter how awful the events of any day…
no person, or consequence, or connotation
can curse a day and erase the good,
nor quell the evil that has colored a day.
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