What I found more distrubing than ignorance of the date, was the belief among some of our denser US citizens that the Sendai tsunami and Fukushima earlier this year was some sort of divine payback for Pearl Harbor. I think Midway, Guadalcanal, The Marianas, Leyte Gulf and Japan's economic collapse, firebombing and A-bombing, etc. were payback for Pearl Harbor with plenty of interest. It's like these idiots think Japan somehow got off a sucker punch clean.
And what's the point of divine payback 70 years later?