[ourmaninBusan]

It's sad that two sombre anniversaries -- one tragic (Dec. 8),
the other calamitous (Dec. 7) -- should appear back-to-back
in our calendar.

I didn't realize how much we'd lost with Lennon until a few months
after his death, when I heard "Imagine" -- it was like, oh, that's
John Lennon! He was great!...and we lost him.

As for Pearl Harbor, I remember an episode of Brady Bunch where
the boys go out to the floating memorial over the Arizona with their
father and observe a moment of silence. That's something I ought to
consider doing in the future.