mickeym

I hope everyone takes a moment today to remember the men and women who lost their lives on this day, in 1941.

I genuinely hope someday I can get out to Hawaii, so I can pay my respects to the memorial in person.

I was thinking about Pearl Harbor the other day, in a sort of weird, random fashion: both big bang stories I've written have mentioned or dealt with December 7th. In the first one, it was a catalyst for the other events that shaped the story (much as it was catalyst for so many other events that shaped America's history as well as world history). It was a huge event in Sam and Dean's lives; their lives were forever changed because of events that dominoed from it. In this year's story, it was history. Jared's offhand thought is, "sorry it happened, but I'm tired of hearing about it on it the news, let's change the channel."

Kind of weird, the differences in attitude -- and not intentional on my part, just, writing characters THEN and NOW. Pearl Harbor was a real, live event for so many; for the generations that followed, it's something they heard stories of (maybe) or (more likely) read about in history books.

Anyway, it was just something I found kind of interesting; that it's in both my BB stories, in some way.

Unrelated to that, another big THANK YOU to everyone for all the snowflakes decorating my userpage :) It's been pretty awesome, watching all the love showing up on my flist :)