Someday At Christmas
[atomic cloud over Hiroshima]
Some historians blame U.S. military incompetence -- or arrogance -- for failing to prevent the surprise attack. They say not enough attention had been paid to the ambitious Japanese military buildup.
Some critics contend that President Franklin D. Roosevelt intentionally provoked the attack to justify America's entry into World War II.
Was Pearl Harbor really a surprise?
By HIROAKI SATO
My young colleague at work, Donald Howard, comes to me and wryly asks: Why is this Japanese office having a Christmas party on Dec. 7? Impressed by his historical acuity, I only manage: Well, from the Japanese perspective, the Pearl Harbor assault didn't take place on Dec. 7, but on Dec. 8 in the predawn hours.
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Japanese commander Mitsuo Fuchida, who led 184 bombers and fighters over Oahu, sent the message "Tora! Tora! Tora!"
The translation: "Tiger! Tiger! Tiger!" -- which means the attack has caught the enemy by surprise.
On Aug. 4, 1963, Fuchida visited the Detroit area and told members of the Woodlawn Church of God in Royal Oak, "Today, I do only the things that glorify the Lord."
John Lennon's death was a soul Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima for many of us.
Elliot Mintz offers this eloquent assessment: ''It really didn't matter if you thought of [Lennon] as saint or sinner, mediocre or brilliant, heroic or naive, a working-class hero or an isolated dreamer . . . everybody had an opinion. He touched you."
by Stevie Wonder
Someday at Christmas men won't be boys
Playing with bombs like kids play with toys
One warm December our hearts will see
A world where men are free
Someday at Christmas there'll be no wars
When we have learned what Christmas is for
When we have found what life's really worth
There'll be peace on earth
Someday all our dreams will come to be
Someday in a world where men are free
Maybe not in time for you and me
But someday at Christmastime
Someday at Christmas we'll see a Man
No hungry children, no empty hand
One happy morning people will share
Our world where people care
Someday at Christmas there'll be no tears
All men are equal and no men have fears
One shining moment my heart ran away
From our world today
Someday all our dreams will come to be
Someday in a world where men are free
Maybe not in time for you and me
But someday at Christmastime
Someday at Christmas man will not fail
Take hope because your love will prevail
Someday a new world that we can start
With hope in every heart
Someday all our dreams will come to be
Someday in a world where men are free
Maybe not in time for you and me
But someday at Christmastime
Someday at Christmastime
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