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Days of Infamy and Hope

  "To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history."                            Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) Our recent generations have often been defined, unfortunately, by the question:  "Where were you when...?"  As the generations overlap one another, the questions are always different as are the responses.  One thing that is constant is how we are all affected by what Franklin D. Roosevelt coined "a day that will live in infamy" when he referred to the early Sunday morning attack on Pearl Harbor by the military forces of Japan.   December7, 1941 I think of how it affected my parent's generation...the fear, anger, and, sadly the resulting xenophobia against those of Japanese origin. After the initial shock came the call to arms to which the "greatest generation" immediately responded.  That same generation had seen, only twelve years earlier, the economic collapse of the great United States followed by years of universal pove