Can\u2019t let Pearl Harbor day pass without a comment. As a child of the postwar baby boom, I grew up with the echoes of a war before I was born still seeming to echo in my ears. Our teachers talked about it in elementary school. It was a staple of the action in our comic books, and of movies, and even TV. Every adult we knew could tell you where they were when they heard about Pearl Harbor.<\/p>\n
For my generation, 9\/11\/01 was to us what 12\/7\/41 was to our parents: a Day of Infamy burned into our collective memory. Yet I\u2019m told that there are kids today who don\u2019t know why our armed forces are in Iraq or Afghanistan, and are unclear on who this \u201cbin Laden\u201d guy is, anyway. That\u2019s just sad.
\nThere\u2019s no better way to remember the Greatest Generation than to honor the current one, the young Americans now fighting overseas. Here\u2019s a young American who absolutely embodies everything in the collective American spirit that comes to mind when we \u201cremember Pearl Harbor.\u201d Thanks to Chris Lary for sending it along.<\/p>\n