Dec. 12, Rick Halperin, director of the Human Rights Program at SMU Dallas, for a piece challenging Americans to remember the December WWII dates of the Pearl Harbor bombing and the institution of Human Rights Day seven years later. Published in History News Network under the heading Seven Years from the “Day of Infamy” to “Human Rights Day”: https://bit.ly/3gN3rqF
This month has provided us with two historical dates that should give us pause to reflect on one world fading into memory as another is still being determined.
Monday, December 7 was the 79th anniversary of the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, the singular event that brought this country into World War II. Thursday, December 10, 1948 was a bookend of a sort: one of the results of the war was the inaugural International Human Rights Day.
This month our news broadcasts interview former U.S. soldiers and sailors who had been stationed in Hawaii at Pearl Harbor, then as young men in their late teens and early ‘20s. They visually remind us that their generation is passing away, and that soon there will be no one left to talk about that era from firsthand experience.
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