Awakening a Sleeping Giant
Seventy years ago this week, the United States was attacked by Japanese naval aviators at Pearl Harbor, T. I. (Territory of Hawaii). Although Hawaii would not become the 50th state of the United States of America for another 18 years, this belligerent action was nonetheless an attack on American ‘soil’. In fact, the bombing raid by Imperial Japan on December 7, 1941 was the first attack on American soil since the War of 1812, when British troops captured and burned the capitol in Washington, DC. Americans would not see another attack on our homeland until September 11, 2001, when more people were killed by Islamic terrorists than were killed by the Japanese during the attack on Pearl Harbor. In each case, the United States responded swiftly and with vigor and the world learned that it is best not to ‘awaken a sleeping giant’.
Former Enemies Now Best Friends
On the Seventieth Anniversary of the attacks on Pearl Harbor we salute all the men and women of the ‘greatest generation’ who served their country during World War II. This is also a good time to pause and reflect on the many young men and women still standing the watch around the globe, fighting a brutal, tenacious enemy so that the rest of us can safely sleep in peace each night. We pray for ultimate victory over the tyrants whose goal is to enslave the rest of the world, just as they have enslaved the unfortunate people in their own countries. We also pray that one day those counties will become our best friends and allies, just as the British and Japanese people have been for so many years. May God Bless all those who have worn the uniform of the United States military and all those still serving. And may God Bless the greatest nation in the history of the earth.