Pearls

Exactly sixty-nine years ago today, Japan launched its attack on Pearl Harbor. And yet you don't hear about it on the news (not that it's exactly new), you don't hear about it in history class, and you probably didn't know about it at all unless you, like me, are a frequenter of this.
It was sixty-nine years ago, and if you look at all of time, you could even say 69 short years ago, and yet already we are forgetting. If we forget, will we be forced to remember? I find it disgraceful that whenever I tried talking to people about this today, they changed the subject to the Beatles, and I think that if we don't confront history, it can only mean the worst.