Pearl Harbor Day

Today is Pearl Harbor Day. On this day in 1941, America's Pacific Fleet was attacked and more than 2,400 American lives were lost. Here is the President's proclamation.

My generation's equivalent to Pearl Harbor, of course is the 9/11 attacks in which 2,974 people died.

I just started reading Richard Brookhiser's "What would the Founders Do?" It says that George Washington lived through a much worse attack on New York City. More than 10,000 Americans were taken prisoner and died on filthy British ships harbored in New York harbor.

Let us never forget.