It was 70 years ago today that the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor{{1}}[[1]]Played in the movie by Queen Latifa[[1]], prompting then-President Franklin Roosevelt {{2}}[[2]]Played by Kenneth Brannagh[[2]] to encourage Americans to go shopping, make no sacrifices, and gear up for a long, protracted war by cutting taxes on the wealthy. I think. I mean, it was before my time, but I’m pretty sure that’s how you’re supposed to respond to an attack on the nation. Well, that and throw a certain ethnic group into Internment Camps. It also happens to be my father-in-law’s 90th birthday. He was on the losing side of that war (though he’s not Japanese), but they let him into this country anyway, because they knew Germans made for good Republicans who would resent those damn Mexicans who want to sneak into this country, while he came legally (it is, of course, lost on him that it would have been difficult to swim the Atlantic Ocean, so it’s kind of an unfair comparison). Anyway, Happy Birthday to Opa.