Today is December 7, the day that lives in infamy. Pearl Harbor is a long way from Colorado Springs, and the 2 aren't really all that connected, except for perhaps the strong military ties. This year we had the incredible opportunity for our 25th wedding anniversary to visit Oahu, and see the Pearl Harbor Memorial. It was an incredibly moving experience, and I was slightly ashamed I had waited so long to see it. My father and one of his brothers served in the Marines in WWII, Dad on Okinawa and his brother Bill on Iwo Jima, and they rarely spoke of the horrors of it. Bill passed away last Christmas as the "greatest generation" slips one by one into memory. If you get a chance, see the PBS documentary by Ken Burns released this year, called simply The War.

The top photo is on the memorial over the Arizona itself. The 2nd one is of the Arizona Memorial, right, and the battleship Missouri, left, the beginning and end of the war in the Pacific, symbolically at rest in Pearl Harbor.