Re: Ten years after Pearl Harbor
There's also the guilt that was felt by many Americans over the dropping of the bombs on Hiroshima & Nagasaki; not to mention the forced removal of all those of Japanese origin from the American westcoast during WW2.
So I think most Americans wanted
to forget the events of Pearl Harbor ten years later, because of those two things I've mentioned, and because so many American and Japanese lives were lost in WW2. Americans were also more interested in the growing economic prosperity in the early 50's & raising their families; leaving the past years of troubles, 1929-1945, behind.