"A DAY THAT WILL LIVE IN INFAMY"   

PEARL HARBOR DAY--THOSE WHO WERE AROUND REMEMBER WELL, WHERE THEY WERE WHEN THEY HEARD THE NEWS OF THE JAP SNEAK ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR.  WE THOUGHT WE WOULD REPEL THEM IN A FEW WEEKS OR MONTHS, RATHER THAN YEARS.  

THOSE WHO EXPERIENCED JAPANESE PRISON CAMPS, HAD THE WORST POSSIBLE YEARS, FORCED TO BOW TO THEIR CAPTORS OR RISK BEING HIT IN THE HEAD WITH A RIFLE BUTT, OR EVEN BEHEADED.  THE SAVAGE TREATMENT CAME WITH NEAR STARVATION AND ALMOST TOTAL LACK OF MEDICAL CARE OR MEDICATIONS. SOME WERE HELD IN CAMPS ON LUZON, OTHERS WERE TRANSPORTED TO JAPAN TO WORK IN THE COAL MINES LIKE SLAVES.  PERHAPS THE WORST WERE THOSE WHO HAD THE MISFORTUNE TO BE SHOT DOWN NEAR CHI CHI JIMA.  THEY WERE HELD PRISONER UNTIL BEHEADED, AT WHICH TIME THEIR BODIES WERE CANNIBALIZED.

A FEW DAYS AFTER THE WAR STARTED, PRIME MINISTER TOJO SAID HE LOOKED FORWARD TO DICTATING PEACE TERMS FROM THE WHITE HOUSE,  HE WAS EXECUTED AS A WAR CRIMINAL.  

THOSE OF US WHO FOUGHT THE ENEMY ON THE GROUND MAY FORGIVE, BUT WE WILL NEVER NEVER, FORGET.  WE WISH ALL AMERICA WOULD REMEMBER AS WELL.