Flags are regularly lowered to half-staff (or half-mast, if you’re on a ship or a naval station) to commemorate important moments in American history or honor Americans who have lost their lives.
Dec. 7 is one such day that falls under both categories. It’s the anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
We are not America anymore. Very few people are Americans, just ask them. We are a collection of african-americans, latinos, refugees, asian-americans, and various pronouns, genders, and political declarations too I guess.
ReplyDeleteBut nobody is an American. Yes, us 'Heritage Americans' still think of ourselves this way, but we're the only ones. Case in point is the fact they created a special term to describe us, segregate us from what we see ourselves as.
Teddy Roosevelt cautioned us against hyphenated Americans. Sad how far we've degraded ourselves under the banner of DIE .. diversity inclusion equity
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Some of my ancestors arrived in America before 1700. I live in a certain state I will not mention. I moved here 35 years ago. Yet, I have little interest in my state's history, in particular, and then only as it pertains to the Big Picture of American history.
DeleteYou have to understand that so many of these immigrants are from Third World cesspools. They came here for jobs. American history is not their "thing."
Yet, around July 4, Fox News' successor to Jesse Waters' "man on the street" interviews, asked young people of various ethnicity and racial groups who we fought in the Revolutionary War, the number of wrong answers was amazing--and alarming.
Young people today seem to spend more time getting others' pronouns right, than they do studying and understanding history.
Sad but true.
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Did my 20.
ReplyDeleteBoarded the Arizona memorial in a very respectful way. Thing that pissed me off were all the Japanese tourists and all the shit written in Japanese.
Oil still bubbles up from time to time.
But then I did vist in Nagasaki while on a port visit nearby.
My liberty buddy said, look, what do you see?
A city.
Yup, tac nukes work.
Ragnar
The Japanese are far more respectful of the Arizona than a lot of actual US citizens that visit.
DeleteNowadays, it seems like the flags get lowered everytime some grifter or minor government functionary kicks it, or some incel shoots up a gay bar. It seems like they're lowered more than they're up. Something that used to make us proud leaves us in a perpetual state of shame or depression. Honestly, when I saw them getting lowered, my first thought wasn't "Pearl Harbor," it was, "What now?"
ReplyDeleteHoneymooned with my California born bride in Hawaii. After the introductory movie at the Arizona memorial visitor center, she asked me "Is that true? Did that happen?"... Strike one.
ReplyDeleteI didn't notice but, Did Jell-O Brain Pedophile Joe make mention of Pearl Harbor yesterday?
ReplyDeleteNo, but Cumalla said something about bombs dropping on 'big boats.'
DeleteShe probably said "Some people dropped bombs".
DeleteMost SoCal residents aren't American anyway
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