THIS DAY – AT 11:19 A.M. ET:  I wonder how many young people in America know what the term "Pearl Harbor Day means.  I'm not optimistic about the answer.  When I was younger, everyone knew that December 7th was Pearl Harbor Day, the day that changed everything, the day that plunged America into World War II, the day that would lead to our being the greatest superpower in history.

There are not too many left who remember.  And too many young people are being taught by a corrupt educational system that the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was simply retaliation for our mistreatment of Japan.  After all, those people had "grievances."

The generation that emerged from Pearl Harbor won the largest war in history, forged a generous peace, helped rebuild our enemies and turn them into allies, and, at home, passed all the major civil rights laws that righted historic wrongs. 

And yet, in the late 1960s, young people were taught by the political left, "Don't trust anyone over 30."  Don't trust the generation that saved the world and then rebuilt it.  Trust college students, whose great contributions to civilization were tie-dyed jeans and "happenings" in Central Park. 

That same mentality has come back to haunt us today. 

The Pearl Harbor generation will soon be gone.  Too many Americans won't know to miss them because they've never been taught to revere them. 

There is still some time to correct our loss of memory.  If it is not corrected, we are done.

December 7, 2017