Beach Balls, Bombs, Generations
Beach Balls, Bombs, Generations
Infamy’s 80-year Shadow
December 7, 2021
Eight Decades
Bob Dole died a few days ago. Edward Shames, the last of the “Band of Brothers” has died, too.
According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs there are only about 240,000 American World War Two veterans still alive from the 16,000,000 who served.
Pearl Harbor was 80 years ago and we think of how many young men and women, just children really, saw the planes, felt the smoke, heard the news, and thought “This Christmas won’t be the same.”
Stacker.com says the most popular toy in 1941 was the beach ball. People were having fun. The year before it was a Daisy Red Ryder BB gun. That’s what Ralphie wanted.
By 1943 the most wanted toy in the land was little green army men. Tiny toys brought by Santa for little kids who, by that time, had known two years of war.
It started on a Sunday. --TK
Tuesday, December 7, 2021