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Pearl Harbor day has gone rather unnoticed this year. Or so it seems to me.

Yep, it seemed that way to me to.
But, I suppose that newspaper/jouralistic observances are a bit better
on years that are multiples of five (e.g., the five, ten, etc. year anniversaries).
And of course as we get past 60 years, the number of people alive who were directly
impacted shrinks.

And having a stinker of a film (except for the middle part with the actual attack) with
the title "Pearl Harbor" didn't help.
By comparison, "Saving Pvt. Ryan" seems to be on the way to being a perennial Memorial
and Veterans Day classic.

I thought some of the dialogue stank, but am happy that the film/theme was well-received
by the general public. A few weeks ago I heard a radio personality (who'd I'd call "left of center")
say that she and her husband visited the gravesites at Normandy because of the film.
That's a pretty good impact from a film.