I’m old enough to remember when December 7th was a very big deal, almost a national holiday. Everyone who was alive when Pearl Harbor was attacked could tell you exactly what they were doing when they got the news. In many ways, the Cold War establishment of a massive standing army in peacetime and unprecedented overseas bases was a reaction against the trauma of an American fleet being wrecked in its home port. But time moves remorselessly forward, and the commemorations became smaller each year as the veterans died off and now even their children are getting old. To even…

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