{"id":8404,"date":"2010-12-07T00:45:42","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T05:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=8404"},"modified":"2010-12-07T00:02:30","modified_gmt":"2010-12-07T05:02:30","slug":"pearl-harbor-remembrance-day-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/07\/pearl-harbor-remembrance-day-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A surprise attack by Japan on the Hawaiian Islands (which were not yet the 50th state) awoke the &#8220;sleeping giant&#8221; 69 years ago today, bringing the United States into World War II.\u00a0 Millions had already perished in a war that had consumed the world, though the US had largely stood by.\u00a0 They would do so no longer, and the world would be better for it.<\/p>\n<p>The United States did not engage in war in the 1940s merely to avenge an attack or remove a threat.\u00a0 It sought a decisive and just end to conflict in uncompromising terms &#8212;\u00a0it defended an &#8220;absolute right&#8221; in the face of a continuing wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Those who recall the date that &#8220;lives in infamy&#8221; are becoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/nation\/2010-12-07-pearlharbor07_ST_N.htm\">fewer in number<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As an aside, it is interesting to note the attack on Pearl Harbor lasted approximately 2 hours, and resulted in 15 Medals of Honor &#8212; 5 to living recipients &#8212; among other citations.\u00a0 By contrast, the 9-year conflict in Afghanistan has resulted in 4, one to a living recipient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A surprise attack by Japan on the Hawaiian Islands (which were not yet the 50th state) awoke the &#8220;sleeping giant&#8221; 69 years ago today, bringing the United States into World War II.\u00a0 Millions had already perished in a war that had consumed the world, though the US had largely stood by.\u00a0 They would do so no longer, and the world [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[91,2,104,123],"class_list":["post-8404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-medal-of-honor","tag-military","tag-pearl-harbor","tag-world-war-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}