64 years ago

Pearl Harbor was attacked.

Speaking of WWII, I just finished reading a book by Bernhard Schlink called "The Reader." It's about this young man who has a relationship with a mysterious older woman. He is so in love with her (he's 15; she's in her 30s) that her past doesn't matter to him. At the end of the book, after many years pass, he is still trying to reconcile the woman he knew and loved with the woman she was before they knew one another, and with the woman she became. It was a quick read.

I also watched "The Aviator" this week, the movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio as billionaire magnate Howard Hughes. DiCaprio was excellent in the role. The movie was interesting. I recommend it for people who love the Hollywood glamour days and for HH aficionados. A casual viewer might not like this film because it is a biopic, but I thought it was a fascinating glimpse, albeit fictionalized, into the life of a powerful--yet eccentric--American icon.