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the_archfiendThis is a relatively short link that doesn't go into brutal detail about one of the most infamous events in American - and for that matter, world - history, but this collection of reminiscences about Pearl Harbor contained a particularly striking comment:
To some, the service has taken on great poignancy given the fact that U.S. troops are risking their lives in the more recent conflicts of Iraq and Afghanistan. Last week, President Barack Obama issued orders to send another 30,000 troops to Afghanistan.
"It's the same thing all over again," said 89-year-old Richard Laubert, of Phoenix, Ore., who was a pharmacist mate at the Naval hospital at the time of the attack. "I just thought when we were doing the war that would be it for the rest of time. But it seems like we just never solve anything."
I'm hoping (beyond all evidence to the contrary, unfortunately) that Mr. Laubert's words end up being anything but bitterly ironic in the near future.
To some, the service has taken on great poignancy given the fact that U.S. troops are risking their lives in the more recent conflicts of Iraq and Afghanistan. Last week, President Barack Obama issued orders to send another 30,000 troops to Afghanistan.
"It's the same thing all over again," said 89-year-old Richard Laubert, of Phoenix, Ore., who was a pharmacist mate at the Naval hospital at the time of the attack. "I just thought when we were doing the war that would be it for the rest of time. But it seems like we just never solve anything."
I'm hoping (beyond all evidence to the contrary, unfortunately) that Mr. Laubert's words end up being anything but bitterly ironic in the near future.
