Dec. 10 (UPI) -- Sunday marked the 84th anniversary of Japan's dastardly attack on Pearl Harbor. Only a handful of survivors are left. And very few Americans were alive then. Hence, Pearl Harbor as past wars and battles, is passing into the distant mists of time.
What is interesting is that a surprising number of visitors to Pearl Harbor memorial for the USS Arizona, in which an admiral, Isaac Kidd, and 1,177 of his shipmates perished, are Japanese.
That suggests how much times have changed. Japan is now a close and trusted ally. So is Germany. And American allies in that war are now on opposite sides: China and Russia.
One wonders what conditions will be like 84 years from now in 2109. Not even Hollywood or Netflix could come close in its movies portraying that future. But let's compare December 1941 and December 2025 to show what has changed.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was president. FDR was considered the most powerful president at that point with his New Deal legislation and attempts to pack the Supreme court. Democrats held 267 out of 435 House seats and 66 out of 96 seats in the Senate. The war in Europe had consumed FDR as he used every means to support Great Britain that stood alone against the Hitlerian juggernaut.
