Archive for December, 2009
What’s In a Date?
Monday, December 7th, 2009Today many have been thinking back to the events at Pearl Harbor in 1941. President Roosevelt summed up our nation’s horror over the resulting loss of life from Japan’s surprise attack when he called Dec. 7, 1941, “a date […]
The Greatest Generation
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009Tom Brokaw’s 1998 best-seller, The Greatest Generation, looked back to the generation of Americans who came through World War II victoriously. The past few weeks I’ve been reading E.B. Sledge’s With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa (1980, Presidio Press), a first-person narrative of two WWII […]
