remember

 

Let's remember Pearl Harbor

As we go to meet the foe.

Let's remember Pearl Harbor

As we did the Alamo.

We will always remember how they died for Liberty.

Let's remember Pearl Harbor

And go on to victory.

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1940s years at Cove School we began each day of class with a Devotional that included pledge of allegiance to the flag, maybe a Bible reading (I don't recall for sure), a prayer, and one or more songs. One song we loved to sing was "God bless America," another was "My country, 'tis of thee." We had other songs, "There's a church in the valley by the wild wood" was one, Robert will remember.

 

One of our favorite songs in those years of World War Two was "Let's remember Pearl Harbor," to the lyrics above. It comes to mind today, December 7, Pearl Harbor Day. 

Church this morning, weather permitting (or likely even if not), but this afternoon I may watch one or the other of many films available online about that era of my life that so influenced my thinking and prejudices for the many decades it took for my hatreds and bitterness to fade.

The anger, our uncontainable national fury