Joe: Thank you very much for putting the thread in perspective. I originally intended to create a space for memorializing the original attack, and I was taken aback by the shifting of the thread to "the other bookend" of the war in the East, when the A Bombs were used to end it. I thought it over and felt that perhaps I had created the opening for it myself by referencing "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo" and my father's thoughts and experience in Japan at the end of the War. The bombing of Pearl Harbor led him to believe the U.S. would enter the war, and the use of the Bomb at the end of the War he felt perhaps saved his life (and made my life possible).

I personally feel we can commemorate Pearl Harbor by itself without denigrating other events of the war, which should get their own threads to remember their actors and victims.

Since we've passed Year 75 of Pearl Harbor, we shall certainly pass Year 75 of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the webosphere will reflect this.