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[bedlamsbard]

Watching Pearl Harbor tonight -- gods, that's a beautifully shot movie, and gods have mercy, I can't watch it and help but think of how fucking haunted Pearl Harbor must be -- and just as the Japanese are bombing Pearl Harbor, my mom called from Japan.

Is it bad that I find that hilarious?

(Also hilarious, in a sort of terrible way: my friend New York's birthday is December 7 -- Pearl Harbor Day. Last year we'd been talking about going out for sushi for a while, and I said, "Oh! We should go on New York's birthday!" and totally didn't realize that her birthday was Pearl Harbor Day.

Eventually Texas, New York, and Alaska stopped laughing at me. We did not go out for Japanese on her birthday (which also falls during finals, bah).

Other things that I find funny that I really shouldn't: my first ex-roommate's grandfather fought in the German Army during WWII. My grandfather was in the Japanese Navy during WWII.

...we did not spread these facts around. (My grandfather was a teacher, not a fighter, but he had the bad luck to get not one but TWO ships sunk out from under him, and was reported dead to his parents twice. Today is his ninetieth birthday. (He is now a priest.) That's why my Mama's in Japan right now.)

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[scy]

One of the residents I took care of in a nursing home is a Pearl Harbor survivor, interesting fellow. And, have you been to Pearl Harbor? It's definitely eerie, to say the least.

[bedlamsbard]

I haven't, as far as I remember -- we might have gone when my aunt and uncle were still living in Hawaii, but that was a very long time ago. My high school band got invited to play for the -- 65th anniversary of Pearl Harbor? One of the anniversaries -- but because the school district hates us and refuses to give us money, we couldn't go. I would like to go sometime.