ASLEEP AT THE SWITCH

BAYFIELD YACHT CLUB DOCK

Thursday, PEARL HARBOR DAY, 8:00 AM.  13 degrees F at the ferry dock, 11 on the back porch.  Wind SW, calm with light to moderate gusts.  The sky is overcast with snow showers, the humidity 72%.  The barometer has begun to fall, now at 30.15".  The highs today and tomorrow will be in the low 20's.  Wintry skies will continue, with snow showers ending this morning but commencing Friday night.
   We did our weekly shopping in Ashland yesterday afternoon, and the weather was miserable. Chequamegon Bay was dark and angry, the wind and snow flurries biting.  We did our best to get back in time for the Wednesday evening Advent service at Christ Episcopal Church, but the weather won out.
   The Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor occurred on this date in December, 1941, plunging the world into WWII.  I was too young to really remember that infamous day, but I well remember cousins going off to war shortly thereafter.
   We were asleep at the switch on that fateful Sunday morning; let's not repeat the same mistake seventy six years later, when it would mean loosing a great city and hundreds of thousands of our fellow citizens.