Notoriety caused by evil,

"Infamy" began on December 7th

People called in to the talk radio show today as I drove home from work. Some talked of Grandpa, others of Dad, and a couple of their own specific memories. My Dad talked some about this war. I remember friends in a church group who talked about this day. Some where on the ships that were hit. The talk show host was respectful. He will hang up on a lot of folks and just yell about how dumb they are on other days but anyone with a memory or thought about this war today, was treated with respect. Some wars command some respect. Some who fight in the wars get respect, even if the wars don't. Sometimes neither the soldier or the war is respected. Points of view change...............................

In July 1945 at Potsdam, Churchill, Truman and Stalin came together and Truman told them of what was to happen that very next month in August. Two things happened in August. Besides Hiroshima and Nagasaki a book was published.

This seems a little disrepectful, considering the wars impact, but in August 1945

Animal Farm was published.

Animal Farm seems to be aimed at socialism. The book targeted the same enemy that the war did in many ways. The book continues today to make a strong political and "human" statement. For example maybe it really points to the rise and fall of the republicans of the last 10 years. At any rate the pigs took over for the animals and tossed the humans out. Then an interesting thing happened. They started out with good ideas and were working together and then it turned out that......................

"some animals were more equal than others"

Pretty much real life when folks move into a place of power. The "donkey" sumed up things, both before and after, when he said that life just seemed to go on about the same as always, "badly". Sort of looks like there is more to having things turn our correct than just winning. Then again in the end the pigs who took the place of the men, looked like men. Equality realized, they found the lowest common denominator.

The lesson was in what was missed.

Trying to do better than those that proceeded you. Stepping up rather than down. Sunday we met a man from Japan. He lost his dad when he was a very young man. His father was killed in the war by Americans. He had later converted to a church introduced to him by two young American missionaries. He joined and then served his life seeing Americans not as people that had killed his father but as people that he had learned to love. He stepped up.