DECEMBER 7TH – AT 9:12 A.M. ET:  This, of course, is the date that will live in infamy.  For those of a certain age, December 7, 1941, was one of those days that defined a generation and its struggles. 

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that Sunday morning ended America's debate over isolationism.  War had come to us.  We didn't have to come to the war.

And yet, the only things that many young Americans know about World War II is that we interned the Japanese on the West Coast and that we used the atomic bomb against Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  The leftist control of American education has stolen our history, twisted it, and used it as a weapon to indoctrinate the young.  A recent "academic conference" in Hawaii, centering on the Japanese attack, was an academic scandal itself.  It was dominated by leftists, who informed us that Pearl Harbor was all America's fault.  One "scholar" announced to the scholarly assemblage that he had turned down an academic assignment because he would have an office that overlooked an American naval base, and that he found the sight repugnant. 

This is what's teaching our kids.

Those who are old enough, or informed enough, mark each December 7th, mindful of the fact that we suffered another December 7th on September 11, 2001, with even greater casualties.  December 7, 1941, marked the start of America's entry into World War II, a war which ended in total victory.  Nine-eleven marked the start of a longer, twilight struggle, still to be resolved.

Even during World War II, President Roosevelt worried that Americans might not remember Pearl Harbor, although they were on all the fighting fronts.  He asked Hollywood to create a song to remind the nation of the day of infamy, which is how "Remember Pearl Harbor" came to be written.

Now, too many Americans have forgotten Pearl Harbor, or have not even been taught about it.  And we are starting to forget September 11th.  I wonder how much passion will be attached to the tenth anniversary next year.

It is bad enough to forget our history.  To have it replaced by a corrupt history dictated by radical professors and their disciples, is worse still.  If we do not confront the damage done to our educational system, nothing else will save us.

December 7, 2010