Bush was stunned. John Kennedy asked, "I thought her name was Pearl Bailey?"
Hey,C'mon...that's not fair.JFK(and his brother Joe,for that matter) served honorably in WWII,as did former President Bush and many others.
In fact,JFK was,IMO,the last prominent (influential) democRAT to be worthy of the respect of today's Republicans/ conservatives.
Pearl Harbor Ping
"I thought her name was Pearl Bailey?"
You can't do that joke in this time of metastasizing PC, but I remember Flip Wilson doing it on TV.
I was in my crib, being only 27 days old; maybe my oldest sister was holding me, as she was a great help to my Mom.
Sunday, December 7, 1941, was 'Bloody Sunday' for my dad who was a salesman in Shreveport, Louisiana at the time. He went on to serve in Euprope.
Sunday, December 7, 2003, was 'Bloody Sunday' for my son who was a soldier with the 101st in Mosul. An IED had killed his best friend just moments after they had parted on separate assignments. Later he helped wash the blood out of the Humvee and present the eulogy at the memorial service.
Both my father and my son have their on December 7ths to mark their lives and I sit here as a 'tweener'of sorts wondering at it all. My dad and my son are far better men than me.