Pearl Harbor Day – Dec. 7th or Dec. 8th?

Pearl Harbor Day.

Is it on December 7th or December 8th?

For years and years I thought it was December 8th. It comes partly with being slow of mind, but also because the 20 some years that I remembered it being December 8th, I was living in Japan.

When I read the morning newspapers, they said today was the day Japan in 1941 attacked Pearl Harbor.

A quick glance at the date above – December 8th.

So, the date stuck.

Then, when I returned to the States, suddenly it was December 7th.

Thinking…thinking….

Right…the international date line.

Japanese text books say Japan attacked on Dec. 8th, but it was still the 7th on this side of the IDL.

Whew!

And, I thought I was losing it.

What do you think about on Pearl Harbor Day?