On a day like this -
Dec. 7th, 2009 01:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kyburgWhy yes, I do remember Pearl Harbor.
And I remember looking at the pictures posted at the shrines in Tokyo taken of the results of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima - pictures I remember I needed a parent's permission slip to see in high school - posted out in the open for everyone to see, granthers to babes in arms. When they get old and weather-beaten, they get taken down and new ones made. Nobody is going to forget.
Believe me. The Japanese remember Pearl Harbor as well. Just - we haven't noticed, or learned much from their experience. But it is there to learn from.
More to the point - it would be 29 years today, if Cliff was still alive (and we were still married). Next year, it will be 15 years - twice over the time we had together. Nine years with Jim.
Boy, has time flown. It does that, I'm told.
And I remember looking at the pictures posted at the shrines in Tokyo taken of the results of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima - pictures I remember I needed a parent's permission slip to see in high school - posted out in the open for everyone to see, granthers to babes in arms. When they get old and weather-beaten, they get taken down and new ones made. Nobody is going to forget.
Believe me. The Japanese remember Pearl Harbor as well. Just - we haven't noticed, or learned much from their experience. But it is there to learn from.
More to the point - it would be 29 years today, if Cliff was still alive (and we were still married). Next year, it will be 15 years - twice over the time we had together. Nine years with Jim.
Boy, has time flown. It does that, I'm told.
