Remembering #PearlHarborDay 🇺🇸 today.

Listen to the historic speech President Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave to the joint session of Congress on December 8, 1941, requesting an official declaration of war.

#USHistory #history

https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/fdrpearlharbor.htm

As we mark #PearlHarborDay, it’s worth remembering those whose suffering faded from view: Japanese Americans in Hawaii, many of whom were detained, displaced or denied full redress after the outbreak of war.

Their incarceration remains one of WWII’s most overlooked injustices. https://theconversation.com/the-overlooked-story-of-the-incarceration-of-japanese-americans-from-hawaii-during-world-war-ii-188268 #Histodons @histodons

Somehow thinking about Tulsi Gabbard facing a confirmation hearing made me think of a neighbor I had met in San Jose in the late 1990s who showed me enlarged prints of pictures he had taken while he was in the Navy and in Hawaii on December 7, 1941 while picnicking up a hill with his girlfriend and the Japanese warplanes came in.

Now, it's been at least 25 years since I saw those pictures that he had taken at least 55 years earlier.

That chance encounter makes me feel strangely connected to the past and particularly #PearlHarborDay .

A pop culture reminder that "Order 66" (an "automatic" order to summarily execute a targeted group without conscious thought) from the Star Wars prequels was probably based on "Executive Order 9066," signed by FDR, which sent about 120,000 innocent Americans into concentration camps for the heinous crime of looking like the enemy during wartime.

A reminder on a date which will live in infamy, seeing as how we seem poised to rhyme history again with the promised policies of the incoming administration. #PearlHarborDay #NidotoNaiYoni #ForcedDeportation