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December 7th -- "A Date Which Will Live In Infamy"

 

Photos taken the day of the surprise sneak attack on the United States Naval Station at Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii by the Imperial Japanese Navy on Sunday, December 7, 1941.

U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivering an address to a join session of the U.S. Congress on
Monday, December 8, 1941 declaring the Japanese attack: "A date which will live in infamy".
Congress would vote to formally declare war on the Japanese Empire afterward entering
the United States of America into the Second World War.

This post is in honor of National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day (December 7th) -- Never Forget!

ONE MILLION WORLDWIDE VIEWS!

Greetings & Salutations, Y'all!

This morning I discovered that almost 11 years to the month that I began this online journey sharing my thoughts and hobbies here at Southern Fried Common Sense & Stuff that this humble blog reached over 1 million worldwide views. An outstanding milestone that this humble country writer from a small town in South Carolina would like to thank each and every one of y'all across this world of ours for helping make this a reality.

When I started this non-profit personal blog site (then originally named just Southern Fried Common Sense) I honestly didn't know what to expect. 

It began partly as a means to have my voice heard on matters related to Southern-Confederate historical heritage and other topics related to the history of my own little corner of Dixie (the American Southland to all y'all outside of the USA), as well as indulge in and sharing my favorite personal hobby of amateur astronomy and night sky photography, as well as travel blogging and photojournalism.

Although many people here in my country just see my home state of South Carolina as largely a vacation site (and yes we did have some excellent beaches here) and certainly Charleston -- one of the oldest cities in America built by European settlers -- has more than its fair share of history. 

The upstate Piedmont region of South Carolina where I grew up as a Southern boy born on the bicentennial of America's independence and raised in the 1980s and 1990s also has important history that has helped shaped both Southern and American identity as a whole in many ways. History that is both good and bad, but certainly worth sharing. I'm proud to call myself Southern and very proud have been born in this part of America.

One of the major goals of Southern Fried Common Sense & Stuff has always been to share that history and its importance in as accurate and as fairly balanced an properly researched manner as my own humble skills as a simple, small-town country writer can provide. Judging by some of the comments I've received over these last nine years, I've done a pretty good job and I stand by my work.

Since starting this blog I've also expanded the scope of this blog's content to include other topics of nostalgic nature and personal stories of my life -- some of them deeply personal in nature. Some for educational purposes, and others to share further hobbies of mine, but overall as a means for you, the reader, to better understand who I am and the personal values that shape the person writing on this site.

My goal was simply to share my personal love for the small corner of Dixie I was born in, share my sky watching hobbies, talk about the interesting and important local history of my humble little corner of South Carolina and its importance to the American experience, travel and nature photojournalism, and tell some entertaining personal stories -- as well as a few serious topics -- about my youth and current life.

I've been amazed by the outpouring of support that I've received from people, not just in my native South Carolina and United States, but from all across this wonderful world we share.

Though the majority of my views come from my fellow Americans (U.S., Canada, Mexico, and other points south) I'm pleased to say that Southern Fried Common Sense & Stuff has been viewed by people across the oceans from Europe and Asia, to Africa and Australia. From every corner of this planet, on every continent. That's pretty outstanding folks!

Not too bad for a currently 49 year-old American-Southern born Gen-Xer who lives along with a cat and spends hours at his computer in his home office in his PJ pants and old rock band t-shirt. Just goes to show that even a humble writer from a small town in rural South Carolina can provide something of interest. Y'all have my personal thanks for taking the time to read and review my work over these last nine years.

Now that we've crossed this outstanding milestone together, the only place to go now is forward. This Southern boy will continue to bring y'all more good content for as long as God allows me to and I have the ability to do so.

Once again, I thank each and every one of y'all for making this blog the underground success that it is, and please continue to offer your support and become an official follower of Southern Fried Common Sense & Stuff to receive up-to-date content.

Also comment below to tell me what sort of content you'd love to see more off from this site: history, photojournalism, travel, night sky photography, personal stories, nostalgic movie and television reviews, ect.

God bless y'all and have a wonderful Dixie Day, y'all hear!

Backyard Songbirds In My Suet Feeder

 

Hello fellow birdwatchers!

The beginning of December here in South Carolina brings out the beautiful native Carolina songbirds to my backyard feeders, in particular: Chipping Sparrows (Spizella passerina), House Finches (Haemorhous mexicanus), and Carolina Chickadees (Poecile carolinensis) who really seemed to enjoy my suet feeder.

These lovely little backyard birds had no problem sharing the suet and seeds, so you can see the birds eating together somewhat peacefully.

The following photos were taken on the first and second day of December 2025.