A Day That Continues

It has been 70 years and this date still lives in infamy, if only for Roosevelt's speech.   70 years down the road and with few able minded folks around to describe the importance of the event, we are left with history and movie reels, so it is easy to say that Japan probably did the United States a favor by attacking when they did.  After all, Great Britain wasn't going to last forever, which would have made fighting the Germans much more difficult, once the fighting had begun.  70 years later it is hard to say that this date changed the world, as outside North America change had already come.  It did change America and it did have a profound effect on our nation and has every day since.  9/11 is the closest thing we have to compare, and at the time the old times probably would have had memories of the sinking of the Maine.  All that said America as it was then known was already living on borrowed time, at some point, one way or another America was going be to changed by the world conflict, December 7, 1941, just ended up being the date that would live in infamy.  Tonight a photo of a warship, the U.S.S Turner Joy, that was involved in another infamous event.  The Turner Joy is pictured at anchor in the early morning light in Bremerton, WA, a city that would play a significant roll in the war effort and fortunes of my family.