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WWII Not Quite Over For Japan Aug. 27, 2025
Sept. 2 marks the 80th anniversary of Japan's formal World War II surrender. The capitulation was b... Read More
Aloha: Cruising Around the Hawaiian Islands Mar. 16, 2025
By Sharon Whitley Larsen "Aren't you going to be bored?" my brother Mark (yet to take his first ocea... Read More
The Next Pearl Harbor: Close-In Drone Swarm Attacks Launched From US Soil? Dec. 25, 2024
The Great Drone Hysteria first afflicted New Jersey and New York — with maybes from Maryland a... Read More
Last October's Surprise Attack by Hamas Was Israel's Pearl Harbor Oct. 02, 2024
In a surprise attack on Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese planes and submarines attacked American forces on Haw... Read More
Ignoring Lessons Learned at Pearl Harbor Dec. 06, 2022
Washington, D.C., Dec. 6, 2022 — Eighty-one years ago today, Commander Mitsuo Fuchida was prep... Read More
A Date Which Will Live In Infamy Dec. 01, 2021
December 7, 1941. "A date which will live in infamy," President Franklin D. Roosevelt called it. The... Read More
'1/6': A Date -- and Term -- That Will Live in Infamy Mar. 03, 2021
What term will historians use for the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol? Immediately following the e... Read More
As Pandemic Ramps Up the Attack, Will Defenses Hold? Dec. 11, 2020
The New York Times recently reminded us that frontline health care workers — more than anyone ... Read More
In Private Sieges, Missing Public Squares Dec. 09, 2020
WASHINGTON — "We need each other." Bill Clinton once spoke those simple words. Never has that ... Read More
July 4, 2020 Jul. 04, 2020
Dear Readers: Happy Fourth of July! Here's one of our favorite pieces, originally written in 1955 as... Read More
COVID-19: Pearl Harbor -- or War of the Worlds? Apr. 09, 2020
U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams warned that this week of mounting death from the novel coronavirus... Read More
Christmas 2018: Not the Worst of Times Dec. 25, 2018
"Deck the halls with boughs of holly," goes the old Christmas carol. "'Tis the season to be jolly." ... Read More
Give Thanks for the WWII Generation Dec. 10, 2018
77 years ago, Americans in Hawaii awoke to the sounds of mass destruction, and the sights of flames ... Read More
Get a Grip, Democrats Jul. 20, 2018
This week, The Washington Post published an op-ed headlined "It's not wrong to compare Trump's Ameri... Read More
Why We Remember Pearl Harbor Dec. 07, 2017
Why is it important that we remember the attack on Pearl Harbor, a painful piece of U.S. and militar... Read More
What Is America's Goal in the World? May. 12, 2017
For the World War II generation there was clarity. The attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec 7, 1941, united ... Read More
Pearl Harbor's Lessons Must be Remembered Dec. 08, 2016
On a quiet Sunday morning 75 years ago today, the Japanese navy launched a devastating attack agains... Read More
They All Have an Answer for Terror; Take Their Word for It Dec. 09, 2015
All a politician really has are words. They are his only weapon, his only sword, his only shield. Ev... Read More
Be Prepared; Never Forget Dec. 7, 1941 Dec. 08, 2015
Seventy-four years ago today, at 7:48 in the morning local time, American servicemen looked into a b... Read More
The World That Pearl Harbor Created is Coming to An End Dec. 04, 2015
In my youth, Dec. 7 was always a big deal, as we remembered Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. To... Read More
