I don't often think "Kids today," but during the news segment last night reporting on the commemorations of the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941, the pretty young news reporter repeatedly called all the dead of that day "soldiers."
The US Army lost 16 men, mostly at Schofield Barracks. The US Army Air Force lost 217 at Hickam and Wheeler AFB. All but 48 of the other 2,388 people killed that morning were US Navy or US Marine personnel, thus sailors.
The poor girl looked to be born and raised here, too.
Arrrgh.
Posted by Linkmeister at December 8, 2007 03:59 PM | TrackBack