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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't really think COVID changed much for me, but it's been over 20 years. Things from 20 years ago matter less than things that happened recently. I don't think my grandparents were waking up in 1963 thinking about Pearl Harbor.[/quote]
I bet they were if it was December 7, 1963, though.[/quote]

Maybe? Both my grandfathers fought in the war, and they talked about the war a bit, but neither ever mentioned Pearl Harbor or noted the anniversary at all.

20 years after Pearl Harbor, on December 7th, 1961, JFK gave a speech in which he devoted two sentences to it:

“We face entirely different challenges on this Pearl Harbor Day. “In many ways, the challenges are more serious, and in a sense long-reaching, because I don’t think that any of us had any doubt in those days that the United States would survive and prevail, and our strength increase.”

Source: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/us-politics/article-in-a-deeply-divided-us-americans-struggle-over-how-to-commemorate-jan/

I know the Arizona Memorial was getting built around that time, Elvis did a concert to raise money, and they did an episode of "This is Your Life" with a survivor. Overall, though, none of that matches the tenor of what 9/11/21 felt like, to me. I could be wrong (I doubt any of us were alive and old enogh to remember much of 1963), but I think if anything my generation is "remembering" 9/11 with more intensity than that generation remembered Pearl Harbor.[/quote]

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