What's the best kind of greeting for days like today, the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor?

Question

The Christmas season tends to bury our (the U.S.A.'s) observance of Pearl Harbor Day, but this year's (2011's) Pearl Harbor Day (Dec. 7) is the 70th anniversary of the bombing. I got wondering again, "What kind of greeting can we give on a day like this, which is obviously not a happy day, so we don't want to say 'happy Pearl Harbor Day,' but still give people a nice greeting that mentions the day?"

It's kind-of like the big 9/11 day of attacks, which has hit its 10th anniversary this year. Well, we don't want to say "Happy 9/11," because obviously it was anything but happy! I But since it had become a holiday named "Patriot Day," there is a bit of a happy tone that can be applied to it--that we are supposed to remember to be patriotic on that day. It's now another patriotic holiday, but yes, of course the main feeling from it is a sad one.

But Pearl Harbor Day doesn't have another name with a positive patriotic spin. So there doesn't seem to be anything that we can apply to it that gives it any kind of happy spin. The only nice thing about it is that it was so much longer ago than the 9/11 thing. But still, how do we greet people about it so that they remember, without making an unfitting "happy" greeting wish?


Happy Christmas season,
Mike

Answer 1

Have a meaningful day as you remember 1941?



Keep safe and keep America safe

Answer 2

thank you for remembering the cost of this date. it may desire to be of pastime; that as quickly as we hanged Tojo for conflict crimes on December twenty third 1948, the executioner bearing in ideas Tojo's weight, top and widespread physique mass measured the drop to be 7'a million". It became right into a textbook extraordinary, snapping Tojo's neck and spinal twine inflicting on the spot loss of life, and the drop totaled 7'6". Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of team, widespread George C. Marshall is stated to have pronounced during the evening of December seventh 1941 "while this component is over, the eastern language will in basic terms be spoken in Hell". think of what might have got here approximately to Colin Powell if he had pronounced something like that approximately Muslims on September eleventh 2001.

Answer 3

Peace.