Drowns in the ocean of oblivion
That is our collective abandon of history.
Old photographs of human misery
Fail to move a generation
That never grieved and never learned
What their parents failed to teach -
The ships in Pearl Harbor burn
In old and musty newspapers,
The human cries forever beyond reach.
Seventy-two years
Have dried all the tears
A nation had once learned to shed.
The years since then
Have filled us with dread:
The screams of the war planes
In truth never ended;
While history remained unattended
Days of infamy for years descended -
We all are the Pearl Harbor dead.
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