On December 7, 1941, my Mom was four days shy of her 12th birthday. She and a pal were busy making their first cake in my grandparents’ house in Vermont. The radio was on.
There was an announcement: Listen here.
Minutes later, her father, my beloved grandfather, who had served on submarines during WWI, came in. She told him what she had heard and she remembers that his face "turned as white as snow."
In the next four years, 17 million Americans would wear our nation’s uniform and more than 400,000 would be killed in Europe and in the Pacific.
On June 6, 1944, the United States and Britain went ashore in France in an effort President Franklin Delano Roosevelt said was to “liberate a suffering humanity.”
FDR lifted this country from Depression and won WWII for less money than the United States has spent in Iraq.
As the Christian Science Monitor reports today, the war in Iraq has cost $3000 a second.
The United States has spent more money in the war in Iraq than it did during all of World War II.
And for what?
Remembrance