Remember the Alamo!

“Remember, remember the fifth of November,
The gunpowder, treason and plot,
I know of no reason
Why the gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot.”

November 5, 1605--I have to admit this date meant nothing to me before I saw the movie V for Vendetta. These days we all remember 9-11-2001. Nobody has to ask what that date refers to. I wonder how long we will remember.

November 29, 1947--I don't know how long I will remember this date, but just now it is fresh in my memory. As I have just been reading, this is the date that the United Nations passed the vote to accept the Partition of Palestine to create the Nation of Israel. It would not be until the following year that the nation of Israel would come into being. As I was reading about the events that lead to the passage of this vote, I got chills. Israel and the Arabs were pulling out all stops to influence whomever they could in favor of their cause. Israeli representatives sent a message to an official in France asking him if how he could abstain from participating in a vote that would affect the course of history (or words to that effect, I don't have the book handy). Later they would learn how cuttingly these words would fall upon the ears of the gentleman who received this message.

When news reached Israel of the passage of this essential UN decision, there was dancing in the streets, although knowing it would soon lead to a war with the Arabs.

The United Nations was meeting in New York, the day after Thanksgiving.