The Saddest Day

December the 7^th …  still the saddest day…. Most of us over 60 remember this date each year… We not only had it in history classes.. and some of you all, are old enough to remember the day.

I was only a year and ¾ old.

I wonder what the media and other will do today.. will there be words, will there be mention on the news.. or will it become like the day that Kennedy was shot, just a memory for those of us over 60?  After all last month the shooting of Kennedy was barely mention in the facebook daily feed… and I don’t recall the news station that I watch mention it at all. 

And for those of you who are wondering what am I talking about.. December 7, 1941  was Pearl Harbor bombing of our ships by the Japanese planes.  I took care of a woman who lived in Hawaii on that day.  She said she had been to a party the night before. She still had her blue gown on, as they came home late and had been drinking pretty heavily.  It was getting close to Christmas, and everyone was starting to have their Christmas parties.  So she and her husband plopped across their bed.. To be woken up to bombs dropping. At first they thought it was the Air Force practicing in the harbor. Her husband cussing the damn Navy and Air Force, couldn’t they give it a rest, after all it was Sunday!!  As he got up to go to the bathroom, he looked out of the window, and to his horror.. he screamed  OH, MY GOD.. THEY ARE BOMBING US..  forgetting he had to go pee, he ran to his car to drive to the base. It was the most horrible day of our lives, she said.  She said it took months before they had a normal day again.. but actually she said.. there was no more normal days.

And for us.. our family..  we lost our dear sister/sister-in-law  2 years ago, on this day.  Depression is hell.. Hell when they are alive and you try to understand… and hell for the family after they are gone.

A sad day indeed…