It was 66 years ago tomorrow morning that residents of
Honolulu awoke to find a Nip in the air that had nothing
to do with the autumn. Those events touched off a conflagration
the scale of which hasn't been known before or since, took
millions of lives, changed billions more, and ultimately
ushered in the era of nuclear warfare.

They also brought us a boat-load of great music, much of it
astonishingly up-beat.

My Uncle Vince was one of the brave souls who fought in
the Pacific theatre of operations...he passed away earlier
this year, so this we'll be the first Dec 7 that he won't
be here to remember.

I recently glanced at some of the artifacts of his service---
his Purple heart and two Jap bayonets whose owners, apparently,
had no further use for them.

I guess I'll have to remember for him, and put on some Benny
Goodman and maybe even a bit of Oscar Brand.