The Day That Lived In Infamy

We remembered.  America remembers it was that day of December 7, 1941 and I remembered it so well as if I was there that day at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese came in with their planes to attack to seek and destroy and some two thousand lives were lost.  It launched us into World War 11 and the world was at war.  My father Howard Ah-Tye writes about his accounts when he was sent by Uncle Sam(they called the American government back then as Uncle Sam a kind of expression meaning like a kind of big brother looking after the welfare of the citizens.  My father was drafted into the American navy and it was only a day or two days ago I was handling his navy seaman cap a sailor cap that all military seaman were required to wear in that era in 1941.  For me to pretend and be like Norman Mailer and write about the events of the second World War and  produce a best seller book namely The Naked And The Dead would not be appropriate and so I will not.  But I read many accounts of the times we were there in  his book "Resourceful Chinese".  I'm not a journalist like Norman Mailer was and my day of birth was many years after the second world war ended.  Norman Mailer the writer did all that and yes but I did  get a chance to speak to the famed writer shortly before he died  and so I was greatly inspired to be abled to speak to him on a major radio  talk show at the time he was promoting his book  on JFK and the repercussions Lee Harvey Oswald may or may not have had to face.  I'm merely a blogger   where most other big named publishing houses would never let me get my first leg forward for as a person of color I could never show achievement.  In this blog I am given the opportunity to explain why  people like me  have not achieved in the same successful manner that Caucasians (white) people have.  I give a perspective an account of the war between the Japanese people and the American people(primarily white back then) that no other professional journalist would dare to do least we see something to the nature of a Caucasian impersonating a person of color(a kind of Charley Chaplain seen as an Oriental but acted out or portrayed by a Caucasian(white man).  If any of my readers are left confused it is because I haven't driven home my  point.  My intent is to drive it home simply put to make an understanding and if it  takes a blog to do  the job you will come to fully understand.  I can explain(as Ricky Recardo would exclaim in the old TV series I Love Lucy.