Dec. 7, 2010 marks the Islamic New Year, but not Pearl Harbor Day on all calendars produced by Blue Mountain Arts of Boulder, Colo. (WND photo / Joe Kovacs)

"A date which will live in infamy."

That's how President Franklin Roosevelt immortalized Dec. 7, 1941, the day Japanese forces stunned the U.S. with a sudden attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, prompting the U.S. to jump into the Second World War.

Just don't expect to find any mention of that on your calendar this year.

Nearly seven decades after the onslaught, many U.S. calendars produced by American companies are ignoring  Pearl Harbor Day, and are displaying instead the Islamic New Year on Dec. 7.

Even
calendars promoting the Holy Bible take note of the Muslim observance,
while completely omitting the day on which more than 2,000 Americans
lost their lives in the surprise attack.

"I have a Psalms
calendar, which has a Bible verse on each month's picture, made by
BrownTrout Publishers, Inc., and it also has Dec. 7 as the Islamic New
Year. No mention of Pearl Harbor Day," said Donna Brandt of
Marshalltown, Iowa. "I am incensed and will be giving the BrownTrout
Publishers a piece of my mind! Thank you for calling my attention to
this blasphemy."

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Jim
Jones of Waco, Texas, also bought a BrownTrout calendar, and says, "We
are going to get rid of it. I think I am going back to the store where
we bought it (Petsmart) and ask for my money back. I do not want to
honor a bunch of fanatics who are trying to kill us infidels. My thinking is all Islamists, if they believe and follow the Quran, are fanatics, and I have no use for them."

All calendars produced by the world's largest caledar company, BrownTrout Publishers of San Francisco, make no mention of Pearl Harbor Day, but instead cite Dec. 7, 2010 as the Islamic New Year. (WND photo / Joe Kovacs)

WND obtained several calendars from a variety of publishers, including San Francisco-based BrownTrout, which bills itself as the largest calendar publisher in the world, producing about 1,000 separate varieties each year.

In
its 2010 Bible calendar, which features a 1563 painting of the Tower of
Babel on its cover, the Dec. 7 entry specifies "Islamic New Year," with
Pearl Harbor Day completely absent.

Perusing the rest of its
December page, the BrownTrout calendar notes Dec. 23 is the "Emperor's
Birthday" in Japan, Dec. 26 is when Kwanzaa begins as well as St.
Stephen's Day in Ireland, and Dec. 27 is a "Bank Holiday" in the United
Kingdom. Popular observances such as Christmas Day and New Year's Eve
are also included on Dec. 25 and 31, respectively.

"Pearl Harbor
day is not a federal holiday," said Mrs. Wendover Brown, owner of
BrownTrout, which excludes mention of Pearl Harbor from all its
datekeepers. "It's a day of mourning which is not normally indicated as
a holiday."

She admitted, "We've had many, many letters
questioning our patriotism," and called it an "unfortunate overlap"
that Islamic New Year, which is a floating, lunar-based observance,
happens to fall on Dec. 7 of this year.

"I apologize to anyone
who feels we were unpatriotic or dismissive of Pearl Harbor Day. We're
not," she told WND. "We're a very patriotic company and we're very
American. Tolerance is a good quality of the plurality of our country."

"We feel that the purpose of a calendar is to alert people when regular business
is closed," she continued. "We certainly don't have a political agenda
to impose. We apologize if our products have not reflected the
wonderful country we all enjoy. We will be reviewing holiday citations
on our products for future editions. We will promise to be responsive
to what our consumers tell us."

Brown, 56, says her own brother is a 27-veteran of the U.S. Marines, and is about to retire next month from his post at the Pensacola Naval Air Station in Florida.

She
also points out that within 10 days of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on
America, her company produced two special calendars to raise some
$741,000 for the Uniformed Firefighters of Greater New York to help
families of the heroes killed in the line of duty.

"We gave so much money to that fund, they said they couldn't take any more because they were having trouble distributing it," she said.

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BrownTrout, founded in 1986 by Wendover and her husband, Marc Brown, previously did include Pearl Harbor Day when it was just a small company
dealing with American clients. She says as the firm expanded, its
calendars became more international-oriented, and Pearl Harbor Day
became a victim of the globalization.

Regarding which days are
included and which are not, she says there's an eight-week process
editors go through from Jan. 1 every year through the end of February,
when they do a thorough polling of major buyers, bookstores, pet stores
as well as public comments through social-networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook.

Mrs.
Brown says the 2011 calendar is already being printed and does not
include Pearl Harbor Day on Dec. 7, so the next possible chance to
include it would be for the 2012 edition. The company does provide
refunds to those who request them.

Blue Mountain Arts has never noted Pearl Harbor Day in any of its calendars, but mentions Islamic New Year Dec. 7, 2010. (WND photo / Joe Kovacs)

Meanwhile, popular 2010 calendars published by Blue Mountain Arts
of Boulder, Colo., including "A Sister's Love is Forever" and "Mom, I
Love You So Much," all cite Dec. 7 as the Islamic New Year without any
citation for Pearl Harbor Day.

Bob Gall, president of the
company, was initially unsure when WND first asked why Pearl Harbor Day
is not included, saying it was "really interesting why we don't. I
question the same thing. It is a significant event in our lifetime.
Good question. I don't know."

After investigating the matter, he
discovered the company has never included Pearl Harbor Day in its
publications, but added, "we probably will in the future," since many
other days have been added over the years.

Other observances Blue Mountain Arts currently deems worthy of inclusion are:

March 1: National Women's History Month begins
April 11: Holocaust Remembrance Day
April 21: Administrative Professionals Day
April 22: Earth Day, as well as Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day
May 1: May Day
May 4: National Teacher Day
May 5: Cinco de Mayo
Aug. 11: First Day of Muslim Ramadan
Aug. 26: Women's Equality Day
Sept. 21: U.N. International Day of Peace
Nov. 16: The Muslim Eid-al-Adha
Dec. 26: First Day of Kwanzaa, Boxing Day, St. Stephen's Day in Ireland

The
company did not completely ignore the military, though, as Armed Forces
Day is noted on May 15 in addition to federal holidays such as Memorial
Day and Veterans Day.

Gall admits the company has made errors in
the past, such as producing a calendar displaying Nov. 31, when such a
date does not exist. He says a bride-to-be contacted the company
complaining, "I scheduled the wedding for Nov. 31 based on your
calendar."

"The fun of calendars became a reality where you just can't make a mistake," Gall said.

Susan Polis Schutz, co-founder of Blue Mountain Arts

Blue Mountain Arts was co-founded by anti-war activist Susan Polis Schutz, the director and executive producer of "Anyone and Everyone," a film about parents of homosexual children.

Concerning
her film, she stated, "It is a lot easier for gay people to come out
now than it was 15 years ago. However, there is still prejudice. In
some cases the prejudice is flagrantly overt, in other cases through
more subtle biases of the mind. And there remain antiquated laws and
unequal rights that inhumanely and negatively affect gay people all
over the world."

She created Blue Mountain Arts with her husband, Stephen, and employed her son, Rep. Jared Schutz Polis, D-Colo., the first openly "gay" congressman elected as a freshman to the U.S. House. Jared actually changed his last name to Polis to honor his mother's maiden name.

According to Denver's Westword,
Jared Polis in recent years has donated heavily to Democratic campaigns
and left-leaning organizations, including giving $200,000 to MoveOn.org.

As WND first reported last week, Publix Supermarkets,
a major chain in 5 Southeastern states, pulled its free, 2010 calendar
from shelves after outraged customers flooded the company with
complaints for citing the Islamic New Year at the expense of Pearl
Harbor Day.

The forward magazine of USS Shaw explodes during the 2nd Japanese attack wave on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Dec. 7, 1941. To the left of the explosion, Shaw's stern is visible, at the end of floating drydock. At right is the bow of USS Nevada, with a tug alongside fighting fires.

A South Florida radio station, WFTL, brought the matter to light with its midday hosts, Joyce Kaufman and Jeff Katz, urging listeners to bombard Publix with their concerns.

Ironically,
while Publix did not include Pearl Harbor Day, it did find space for
National Boss Day and Administrative Assistant's Day.

Kimberly Jaeger of Publix

The inclusion of those non-holidays contradicts a statement last
Wednesday by Publix spokeswoman Kimberly Jaeger who explained,
"Traditionally, our calendars have solely noted holidays. Due to the
number of holidays in a calendar year, days of remembrance have not
been noted."

By Friday, another statement isssued by the chain claimed those non-holidays were added "based on customer requests."

Publix also found room to list independence days for many
foreign countries such as Antigua, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia,
Central America, Cuba, Haiti, Mexico, Paraguay, Uruguay and Trinidad
and Tobago.

In the wake of WND's national exposure of the matter, the
supermarket has taken on a more apologetic tone, telling its customers,
"We would never knowingly disappoint you. We truly regret and apologize
for having done that. Our intent was never to exclude important dates
or to reduce the importance of any one day. Since our customer base is
very diverse, we make every effort to do the right thing, for the most
people."

Concerning the calendar flap, Kathleen Riley of Rochester, Mich., wrote WND to stress
the bigger issue, in her opinion, is that immigrants must assimilate
into American culture, not Americans into foreign cultures.

Little by little, inch by inch, the folks from the
Middle East countries are promoting their values, ideals and culture on
us, some by force, some by insistence, some by their clothing style,
and some merely by perseverance. (I live in the Detroit area; first
they took over Dearborn, then Hamtramck and now are flooding
Southfield. The Dearborn schools stop for prayers six times a day,
creating an uncomfortable situation for anyone non-Muslim.
Consequently, people move out of the area and sell their homes to other
Muslims. … This is the impact of adding their holidays to our
calendars. Excuse me, but the last time I looked (despite what Obama
tells the world), the United States of America is a Christian country.
This multi-culturalism hoax must go away.

According to WND readers, another calendar maker citing the Islamic New Year over Pearl Harbor Day is Myron Corp. of Maywood, N.J.

But not all publishers have omitted the World War II attack. The National Pen Co. of Shelbyville, Tenn., as well as the National Rifle Association are among those who take note of Pearl Harbor Day, while excluding the Islamic New Year for 2010.

According to the Naval History and Heritage Command,
Americans losing their lives on Dec. 7, 1941, numbered 2,403, including 68
civilians, most of whom were killed by improperly fused anti-aircraft
shells landing in Honolulu. There were 1,178 military and civilian
wounded.

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