After listening to President Theodore Roosevelt’s address to Congress after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor reportedly wrote in his diary, “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”
In a famous address to the nation delivered on December 8, 1941, one day after Japan’s deadly strike against U.S. naval and military forces in Hawaii, President Franklin Roosevelt called the unprovoked attack on Pearl Harbor a “date which will live in infamy.” He also asked Congress to declare war.
And the Giant woke up! We all know the results. The cost in human lives, on both sides, was unimaginable. Reason triumphed and so the entire world.
Since the beginning of the year 2020, we have been involved in another world war. A new war that we know who the enemy is but we cannot see it.
In WWII, we used bullets. In COVID-19, we wash our hands, we don’t socialize, and we stay six feet apart… since we do not have a specific drug to fight the enemy. Meanwhile, one that is being used since 1946 to fight malaria has shown success in many cases.
In the meantime, we have to remain positive. Follow the instructions of our authorities. If you can, stay home as much possible. This is a war that we need to win and we will.
We’ve seen the Giant wake up again, when after undergoing maintenance and staff preparation in a record time of two weeks the U.S. Military deployed two Hospital Ships to Help Slow Coronavirus in New York and San Diego, California.
The automobile industry stopped building cars to make ventilators, Haute couture designers changed their style to produce medical uniforms and without going too far, here in Lawrence, a factory change their production of sneakers to produce masks for medical use so badly needed. With this attitude, how can we lose?
In order to help the sick, we need to protect our force of first responders, doctors and nurses, hospital maintenance personnel and everybody involved in the care of the sick. And the best way we can help them, is staying at home, as much as you can.
