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"Now, once again, democracy is under attack by those who believe some people are better than others."
#Trump #NationalSecurity #Europe #WhiteSupremacy #racism #PearlHarbor #WWII #fascism
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"Now, once again, democracy is under attack by those who believe some people are better than others."
#Trump #NationalSecurity #Europe #WhiteSupremacy #racism #PearlHarbor #WWII #fascism
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"But as the impulse of WWII pushed Americans toward a more just and inclusive society after it, those determined not to share power warned their supporters that including people of color and women as equals in society would threaten their own liberty. Those reactionary leaders rode that fear into control of our government, and gradually they chipped away the laws that protected equality."
#Trump #NationalSecurity #Europe #WhiteSupremacy #racism #PearlHarbor #WWII #fascism
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"Among the many ethnic groups who fought, Indigenous Americans served at a higher percentage than any other ethnic group—more than a third of able-bodied Indigenous men between the ages of 18 and 50 joined the service—and among those 25,000 soldiers were the men who developed the famous 'Code Talk,' based in tribal languages, that codebreakers never cracked."
#Trump #NationalSecurity #Europe #WhiteSupremacy #racism #PearlHarbor #WWII #fascism
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"America fought World War II to defend democracy from fascism. And while fascism preserved hierarchies in society, democracy called on all men as equals. Of the more than 16 million Americans who served in the war, more than 1.2 million were Black American men and women, 500,000 were Latinos, and more than 550,000 Jews were part of the military."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
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On this day in 1941, my father, who was a Marine stationed aboard the USS Pennsylvania at Pearl Harbor, went to sleep not knowing he and other soldiers at Pearl Harbor would be awakened early in the morning by a surprise attack of the Japanese.
He said that he and his comrades were still in their bunks as the attack began. He quickly threw on his uniform and ran to the deck to man his gun.
A bomb exploding near him sent shrapnel flying and a piece of the shrapnel pierced his abdomen, wounding him not seriously, though he had a scar forever after that incident.
On 21 August, less than four months before the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, he had written his family to say that he had been to Honolulu, Waikiki, and Hilo on a liberty and had enjoyed the outing.
His letter speaks of the beauty of the Royal Hawaiian Hotel and the beach at Waikiki, as well as of the large groves of palms loaded with coconuts. Little did he know as he wrote the letter that the nation would soon be at war and he'd be called into active duty in the Pacific Theater for the remainder of the war.
On this day in 1941, my father, who was a Marine stationed aboard the USS Pennsylvania at Pearl Harbor, went to sleep not knowing he and other soldiers at Pearl Harbor would be awakened early in the morning by a surprise attack of the Japanese.
He said that he and his comrades were still in their bunks as the attack began. He quickly threw on his uniform and ran to the deck to man his gun.
A bomb exploding near him sent shrapnel flying and a piece of the shrapnel pierced his abdomen, wounding him not seriously, though he had a scar forever after that incident.
On 21 August, less than four months before the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, he had written his family to say that he had been to Honolulu, Waikiki, and Hilo on a liberty and had enjoyed the outing.
On this day in 1941, my father, who was a Marine stationed aboard the USS Pennsylvania at Pearl Harbor, went to sleep not knowing he and other soldiers at Pearl Harbor would be awakened early in the morning by a surprise attack of the Japanese.
He said that he and his comrades were still in their bunks as the attack began. He quickly threw on his uniform and ran to the deck to man his gun.
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