Category Archives: 40s

TORA TORA TORA 2012

December 7, 2012 – 10:24 am

Like JFK’s assassination everyone of a certain age remembered where they were during the announcement of the Japanese attack on the US Pacific Fleet in Pearl Harbor. Many had to ask, “Where’s Pearl Harbor?” This morning to commemorate their ignorance I posed the same question to younger people on the streets of Manhattan. Few of [...]

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Pearl Harbor Day Forever

December 7, 2012 – 10:17 am

“December 7th will live forever as a day of infamy.” President Roosevelt predicted before Congress in his declaration of war on Japan. Infamy in Thai is cheu sia and last year I asked several Thais about Pearl Harbor. My question stumped them all and I repeated the question to several British friends, “What does December [...]

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Dime Toll at the Portsmouth Bridge

August 27, 2012 – 11:55 am

One Saturday night in the Spring of 1939 my uncle and three of his friends exited from double western matinee of STAGECOACH and JESSE JAMES in a state of cinematic exhilaration. Gunfights had had funny effect on their blood. The sun was setting to the west of the Back Cove. Weekend shoppers were exiting from [...]

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“Shocked” / CASABLANCA

February 21, 2012 – 4:58 pm
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Woody Guthrie Says Do This For A Happy New Year

January 4, 2012 – 8:20 am

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