November 22, 1970 is seven years after the Kennedy assassination. December 7, 1948 is seven years after Pearl Harbor.
November 22 also happens to be my birthday.
Ah, yes. I see what you\'ve done now. I think maybe it\'s possible that people took a step back 7 years after Kennedy was shot. Even today, around Nov. 22nd, the history channel shows every documentary ever done about the event.
IMHO I dont think people react/reacted to Pearl Harbor 7 years later as they do with 911. My reason is that as much as a Military tragedy as it was 2350 people died. That was the beginning of our War in the Pacific and that death toll pales in comparison to the many battles that were yet to be fought. I think people remember the day but I think the carnage that proceeded it probably lessened the blow so to speak.
Kennedy - is very similar as people know exactly where they were when it happened but the country doesn\'t stop and run specials and all the other propaganda liek they do when this date comes up. I think the difference is his Assassination did not get a politicized as the events of 911 have.
Does anyone else remember during the 2000 campaign when Bush had to go on the offensive and say that he would not persue an "isoloationist" forgien policy when pushed by Gore on what he would do during an internal crisis?
Remember when the spy plane getting shot down off China was going to the "the big test" for his forgien policy?
Then how he kidn of disapeared Texas over the summer (well, he still does that) and had just released his manifesto on why stem cell research is bad?
The summer of 2001 was a great year.
My early 60\'s history is not very good, so I can\'t do a "major events" on 63, but while Pearl Habour was itself a surprise attack, anyone who, on December 6th 1941 would have been asked "will we join the war?" most everyone would have said "yes, at some point." Everyone knew it was a matter of time.
November 21st 1963 "Will Kennedy be assasenated?"
Actually, I bet that maybe 15% of the population would have said "yes."
September 10th, 2001 "Will the United States be attacked by forgien terrorists?"
I doubt anyone would have said "Yes."
Maybe that is why. To me, at the time, terrorism was something that happened in the Middle-East (far away) or maybe Ireland/Europe, but those attacks were rapidly becoming few and far between.
