December 7th
Posted By admin on December 7, 2011
I lived in Hawaii for a while. In Hawaii, there are buildings that still bear the marks of the attack. When we lived there, I went to the memorial every year with my rabbi and other members of our synagogue to leave a lei in honor of those who died. One of the men had been scheduled for duty at Wheeler AFB that morning. Decades after the friend who’d taken his shift died, this man found his story difficult to tell. Because he’d traded duty on his wedding day with a friend who died at his post.
He gave us his memory. And now I take his memory with me, and it visits me every year on December 7th. When I remember his grief, I wish I could do more for him.
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