This is in honor of Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. There is nothing to say here that can describe the horrible thing called war. But as long as we can hold even a piece of brotherly love inside us, and as long as humans crave tears to justify tragedy, this will be a day that can hold no other picture but that of how fragile human life can be. Please say you remember them, even when you've never seen their faces.
December 6th, 1941, the day before Pearl Harbor was attacked…
We are here for the last time. We don't know it; it's just another night together. But it is the last for too many innocent lives. But whatever tomorrow has to offer, this we must say.
We can't know what happens after the death, after the fire. We can't say we will ever forget how it seems in a single moment of torrential grief. And so, for now, we can only remember.
Remember us smiling, laughing. Smoking our cigarettes, writing our families, like now. Remember us when we were happy. Because without that, there is no reason to remember us at all.
If you can honestly say that the last time you cried this hard was never, we will be honored.
See, we don't fight for ourselves; we wouldn't be "we" if that was so. We know we are asking the impossible- to smile at the enemy and to shake hands forgetting the inhuman acts committed by the both of us.
But for us, for tonight, and for thousands more, that's what we want.
Only a smile, no judgement.
So, we ask you one more time: remember us as we were, as the ones who called you our own. Remember us laughing; if you cannot, then there is no reason to remember at all…