In 1941

BOMBS AWAY

Pearl Harbor Strike

impetus for war

WAKE UP CALL

-------  

.. So it came to pass that the Imperial Japanese Navy did surprise the naval base at Pearl Harbor and the air fields surrounding the town of Honolulu, Hawaii. It happened on this calendar day in 1941.

BATTLESHIP ROW - 12/07/41

.. We pass over this day if we have no connection to that time.
.. If we lost no friends or relatives - it is gone. If we forget what national imperialism is all about - it is gone.
.. If we fail to remember that nationalism carried to extreme lengths precipitates a cloistered mentality - it is gone.
.. The young forget and see few lessons to be learned. The ignorant fail to apply historical perspective to our nation at this moment in time.
.. Cogitation requires remembrance of historic social modalities and the perception of society in the moment. As a culture we have for many generations failed in the understanding of the global impact our actions as a nation.

USS VIRGINIA - 12/07/41

.. We are oblivious to the interconnections of world values, economies, religions, philosophies, alliances, climates, etc.
.. As the fattest nation on earth we are also the dumbest and most complacent in history.
.. With rising stars on all fronts it behooves us to think of our progeny.
.. Oceans do not protect us - as they did at one time. A global awareness is the only salvation of any culture, empire, national system, etc. Sad to say.

-----

.. Still too cold for us to venture far from the front porch. The kids down the block are running the only sleds in town and are buzzing to the last bits of legal open water in the estuaries of the tributaries to Hebgen Reservoir.

THE MINI MUDDLER MINNOW

.. Yes indeed Grendel, fish eat in the winter. They eat in cold water. They love the edges of the ice and seek the warmer bits of water that is slow enough to be warmed by the sun.
.. We're going to take a nap and dream of fish instead of the press of history.

------- 

WALLPAPER:  CRACKED PEPPER BUTTER GRAVY

-------

 PICK YOUR POISON