News Briefs 75Th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor Attack
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VOL. 120 - NO. 49 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, DECEMBER 2, 2016 $.35 A COPY 75th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor Attack President Franklin D. preoccupation with the war in Roosevelt declared it a “date Europe while being complacent which will live in infamy” — regarding any threat in the December 7, 1941, when over Pacific arena (the latter 300 Japanese planes attacked suggested by photos of sandy Pearl Harbor, compelling the beaches and hula girls taken US to enter WWII by declaring by U.S. Servicemen in Hawaii). war on Japan the next day. Next The comprehensive exhibit week marks the 75th anniversary goes on to cover the attack of this terrible day, and a itself, which killed over 2400 small non-profit museum in U.S. personnel, and destroyed Natick, MA, is commemorating or damaged 19 U.S. ships, the anniversary with an including 8 battleships. (Many exhibit entitled “Why We Still of the U.S. casualties were Remember.” stationed on the USS Arizona, The Museum of World War II’s which was sunk in the harbor.) new display chronicles the mood Artifacts from the damaged in the U.S. and Japan leading US ships and shot down up to and after the December Japanese warplanes are on 7, 1941, attack by Japan. The display. Headlines in Japanese exhibition features artifacts newspapers are contrasted evoking the imperialistic with U.S. publications, and the ambitions of Japan, such as heightened fear of Japanese news accounts and propaganda living in America resulting in the celebrating recent victories over internment camps is refl ected the Chinese, and America’s in some of the displays. The News Briefs by Sal Giarratani story of a Japanese-American Ipswich Public Library on is located at 25 North Main The Twinkie is Back serviceman wounded in France December 7th at 5:45 pm. The Street in Ipswich, MA. The talk Newly revived Hostess has decided to let Twinkies and awarded the Purple Heart talk is sponsored by VFW Post will be in the Collins Room be Twinkies, the famous pale yellow calorie tubes while his parents were sent 1093 (where Mr. Farley is a and light refreshments will be with a cream-like fi lling. The marketing is aimed at to an internment camp back member) and the Library, which served. their biggest customer base, which they call “Bubbas home is told through photos, in trucks.” I also assume their old base; kids looking letters, and other personal for a sugar buzz, will also bring them corporate suc- effects. cess, too. A snack that has no expiration date could Buon Natale This very special exhibit become once again the biggest moneymaker it once NORTH END ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION runs through Jan. 7, 2017, was back in my young Twinkie days. presents the and is open to the public by TH No English Test for NYC Cabbies appointment. Visits may be 46 Annual In New York City, they are actually debating scheduled for Tuesday through 2016 NORTH END whether or not to require city cabbies to speak and Saturday by emailing visit@ understand English. Why is this even a debate? Why museumofworldwarii.org. There CHRISTMAS PARADE make it easier for foreign-born immigrants to drive are many other wonderful special SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2016 - 1:00 P.M. cabs if they can’t understand their customers. This exhibits to see as well. Visit is America. Learn English if you want to work with www.museumofworldwarii.otg the public. Period. for complete listings, articles, It is a problem here in Boston, too. It can cause all and directions. The museum sorts of trouble when drivers and riders when don’t is located at 8 Mercer Road in understand each other. An English test doesn’t seem Natick, MA. ominous to me. Other local commemorative Trump Needs Pat Buchanan events include a special Pat Buchanan has been one of my favorite con- ceremony aboard the USS servative commentators for most of my adult life. He Massachusetts at Battleship started off in the late ’60s as a great columnist for Cove (5 Water Street, Fall River, Merry Christmas the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. He ended up working MA) on Wednesday, December SEE SANTA CLAUS ARRIVE AT NORTH END PARK th as President Richard Nixon’s right-hand man when 7 at 12:55 pm (the time of the BY HELICOPTER AT 1:00 P.M. it came to policy. A great conservative, he took on end of the attack, 7:55 am in In case of bad weather, Parade will be held the next Sunday, December 18th In Association with THE TASTE OF THE NORTH END • THE NAZZARO CENTER George H.W. Bush in 1992 at the Houston GOP Hawaii). The ceremony, which NORTH END AGAINST DRUGS • MAYOR’S OFFICE OF ARTS, TOURISM AND SPECIAL EVENTS Convention where he put America First into play. He will take place in the Memorial talked about the oncoming Cultural War still in its Room aboard the battleship, is infancy at that time. open to the public, but seating Dedicated in Memory Just before the 1996 GOP primary in New Hamp- will be limited. There will also be a talk by of (Continued on Page 11) historian Bob Farley entitled JAMES “Jimmy” PALLOTTA “The Attack on Pearl Harbor – 75th Retrospective” at the THE POST-GAZETTE SATELLITE OFFICE HAS MOVED TO 343 CHELSEA ST., DAY SQUARE, EAST BOSTON This offi ce is open on Tuesdays from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM and Thursdays from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM, for the convenience of our East Boston and North Shore clients and contributors Call 617-227-8929 for more information PAGE 2 POST-GAZETTE, DECEMBER 2, 2016 Castro Dead at 90 What Next for Cuba? by Sal Giarratani On Thanksgiving night, the economics, but for liberty, Cuban community was dancing too. The exiles here in our in the streets, especially in country hope the future of Miami. For Cuban exiles here in their homeland is positive. For AT HOME IN OLD ROME, THOSE FABULOUS ROMAN ROADS Florida, it was a day many had them, it has been a long night been waiting for for decades. of oppression. A Roman road may be defi ned The Via Appia, the great south spread a layer of sand, which When Fidel Castro overthrew the I hope that President Barack as a way made for traveling road, was the fi rst one built. It they called the pavimentum pro-American dictator and took Obama and President-elect between places or for the trans- is named after Appius Claudius or fl oor. The second layer was over the reins of government at Donald Trump do not waste portation of beasts and vehicles. Caecus, a consul and praetor, formed of large stones held in age 32 in 1959, he promised the opportunity to reach out; From the days of antiquity to who started the construction place with clay or cement. Then much, but delivered little in a window has opened and it the present time, the condition about 312 B.C. It began at the came the third layer which was his near 57 years of power. A needs to stay open. Should the of roadways was a barometer Porta Capena in the Servian compressed gravel, and then few years back, he handed over United States attend Castro’s or yardstick which measured Wall and ran about one hun- this was followed by a layer the government to his younger funeral? Should we move the civil advancement of a com- dred thirty miles to the ancient of well-tamped sand, chalk, brother Raul (now 85 years old). beyond the nearly six decades munity. Historical records show city of Capua, about eighteen earth, and broken brick. Finally Since assuming power, Raul of raw relations and seek an that as far back as 2000 B.C. in miles north of Naples. The Via they applied the top course of has proved himself less a leader opening dialogue bridging our the city of Babylon, there were Appia has often been called the pebbles or stones, which was blinded by ideology and more of differences? broad straight streets crossing “Queen of Roads” and was wide called the summa crusta or a political realist. What happens This latest news can be at right angles, and also that enough for two broad wagons the main shell. This summa now in Cuba is still anyone’s an important moment for roads were built in ancient to pass each other. The engi- crusta was pitched for good guess. Will post-Castro Cuba be President-elect Trump and for Egypt to transport building neers of those early days chose drainage. The total thickness able to communicate better with President Raul Castro. It can materials for the pyramids. their routes so wisely that the was usually between thirty- their neighbor to the North? be an opening between the two The earliest roads that were present road to Naples follows six to fifty inches, and was Will the total control on the nations. Out of the ashes of constructed in Greece were very nearly the same track. The increased over marshy land island ease up and will forms Fidel Castro, can we fi nd a new called Sacred Ways. These were Via Flaminia was known as or decreased over rocky soil. of capitalism ease their way place to stand? I think we can unpaved and led only to the im- the great north road and was Additionally, there were hun- into the Cuban economy? Time and I think we should. portant religious centers. constructed about 220 B.C.