This will
probably be the final newsletter on Pearl Harbor Day because the myth of an
unprovoked attack by Japan has been thoroughly exposed and refuted.
OMNI
“PEARL HARBOR DAY,” COLONIAL PACIFIC WORLD WAR II
NEWSLETTER #8, December 7, 2016
Compiled by Dick Bennett FOR A CULTURE OF PEACE AND
JUSTICE.
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What’s at Stake: Reporter Frank Lockwood on December 8
wrote: “Wednesday, on the 75th
anniversary of the unprovoked attack…”
One thing is true here: it is the
75th, but the Pearl Harbor attack was provoked. The 75th anniversary is the 75th
year leaders and apparently most of the public have repeated the “unprovoked”
myth. It is well to remember the
soldier and sailor victims for awhile, but after 75 years the assertion of a
falsehood becomes the harmful illness of imperial delusion. For a quick cure, read Roland Worth, Jr., No Choice But War; then if you seek more understanding, read these newsletters,
and then the 35 newsletters on US imperialism.
Why does this matter? The myth of
an abused exceptional nation beloved by god and history has led to a history of
slaughter, our nation right now bombing seven other nations, and our trigger and
targets ready for nuclear bombings. We can perhaps reduce this violence by
rejecting the ignorant, jingoistic myth of the “unprovoked” Pearl Harbor December
7, 1941, bombing, still celebrated after 75 years. And the increase in truth and peace can
provide fertile ground for the study of books like Worshipping the Myths of World War II: Reflections on America’s
Dedication to War by Edward W. Wood, Jr.
Pearl Harbor Newsletter
#8, December 7, 2016
Why the Attack:
Especially beginning with #3, the preceding numbers of Pearl Harbor Day
Newsletter contain at least one writing similarly arguing the provocation of
the PH bombing by the US. See
particularly #6. --Dick]
Remembered in the NADG, that has learned nothing about the
provocations of Pearl Harbor:
Donald Stratton’s
New Book
Lauren Bruner’s
Recollections
Frank Lockwood’s
Report with Dick’s Critique
How U.S. Economic Warfare Provoked Japan’s
Attack on Pearl Harbor By Robert Higgs. Posted: Mon. May 1,
2006. Also published in The
Freeman. http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1930 See #5 for full text.
Remembered in the NADG
2016
Donald
Stratton, All the Gallant Men (2016),
recounts the battle that destroyed the U.S. Pacific Fleet on December 7, 1941,
leading to the US declaring war on Japan on December 8. Stratton is one of only five living
survivors from the USS Arizona. “Grit
and Gallantry,” an excerpt from the book, was published in Parade (Oct. 30, 2016) in the NADG.
Audrey
McAvoy. “Pearl Harbor Survivor Plans His
Return.” NADG (Dec. 6, 2016). Lauren Bruner, one of five remaining
survivors of the sunk battleship Arizona, gives his recollections of Dec. 7,
1941, and of his life after the war.
Frank E.
Lockwood. “Pearl Harbor Survivor,
Arkansan Joins Ceremony.” NADG (Dec. 8, 2016, p. 1). The “unprovoked myth” alive but racked with
osteoporosis and hardening of arteries. “Wednesday,
on the 75th anniversary of the unprovoked attack, [Harold] Mainer
joined Vice President-elect Mike Pence, U.S. Sen. John McCain and other
dignitaries at the National World War II Memorial….” God of the universe is drafted for approval: “The Logan County native looked on as a
bugler played taps, and bowed his head as the U..S. Navy Ceremonial Band played
‘Eternal Father, Strong to Save…” No
reasonable person will claim that the creator of the universe billions of years
ago, a universe now composed of billions of solar systems within billions of
galaxies, bestowed upon this nation his or her special favor. And Senator McCain reinforced that arrogant hyperbole
by hymning the US empire: “…Wednesday’s
ceremony marked ‘one of the dates on which history swung on its great hinge and
the world was forever changed.’ Dec. 67
marks ‘the beginning our country’s rise to its pre-eminence among the nations
of the world, a pre-eminence we maintain to this day, to our benefit and the
benefit of humanity,’ he said.” Preeminence in military power to dominate and destroy
yes, but not by any other measure.
Pearl Harbor Day, Colonial Pacific WWII
Newsletter #7,
December 7, 2015
Dick, Pearl
Harbor No Unprovoked Stab in the Back
Robert Higgs, Economic Warfare Provoked Japan’s Attack
on Pearl Harbor
Dick,
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Remembers
Pearl Harbor
Books Reviewed in Colonial Pacific WWII
Newsletters
Dick, OMNI’s
National DAYS Project
.
END PEARL HARBOR DAY NEWSLETTER #8, December 7, 2016
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