I guess everybody has been too busy today to remember what happened in Hawaii back then.

As it turns out I had an Uncle at Hickam Field who saw it all happen. Luckily he survived the war and Korea




In this day of dissension about Iraq, Afghanistan, Health Care, etc take some time to remember the day we had to stand up to aggression -- and did it

Say a prayer for those poor boys still manning the Arizona and for all the others who died because of Japan's SUCKER PUNCH!

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well said

Salute to the men and women who died on this day, and thanks to all who brought us victory.

:

WWII in Smilies

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http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0106/feature5/index.html

Did You Know?

Dick Fiske, a bugler on the U.S.S. West Virginia, wasn’t the only Pearl Harbor survivor in his family. His father, Frank Fiske, was the Navy chief commissary steward on the U.S.S. Tangier, and his brother Frank Fiske, Jr., was an Army medic at Schofield Barracks. Dick Fiske was one of many servicemen to have family at Pearl Harbor. The U.S.S. Arizona carried 36 sets of brothers (33 pairs and three sets of three) and one father-son pair. When she was bombed on December 7, 1941, 24 of those sets and the father-son pair died. Less than a month later five Sullivan brothers—George, Francis, Joseph, Madison, and Albert—from Waterloo, Iowa, joined the Navy hoping to serve together. A friend of theirs had been killed on the Arizona, and they wanted to fight. The Sullivans were assigned to the U.S.S. Juneau, which was sunk by a Japanese submarine on November 13, 1942, during the Battle of Guadalcanal. All five Sullivan brothers were killed.

At that time the Navy and other military branches began to consider separating brothers in combat. In July 1942 the Navy forbade commanding officers from forwarding requests from brothers to serve on the same ship or station. Mandatory separation of brothers already serving together was considered, but no action was taken. On October 26, 1944, the War Department announced a new policy to remove surviving sons from the hazards of combat. If a family had lost two or more sons in the armed forces and had only one surviving son, either the family or the son could apply for him to be removed from hazardous duties. This policy is still in effect today, but Navy family members can serve together on the same ship.

—Marisa Larson

I also had an uncle at Pearl on that day. I believe he was on the Kentucky, but it might have been the West Virginia. He did not talk much about it. He survived by diving out a port hole.

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This is a very interesting book on the subject, I read it a few years ago:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d.html/ref=redir_mdp_mobile/185-1364714-8154829?a=0140157344

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VqQAf74fsE&feature=related



3 years later, sign on the dotted line b****.

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If any of you ever get the chance to visit the Arizona Memorial and it's associated museum, I would highly recommend you do so. There is no way to put the experience into words.

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was there in '78, as a teenager. it's quite chilling.

the next year we were at normandie (i kid you not; dad was kind of a history buff.)

also, as to the relatives/siblings dying on board the arizona; that separation/preservation policy is the basis for the plot of...saving private ryan.

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"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."

Dates that defined a generation:


~~~~December 7, 1941


~~~~November 22, 1963


~~~~September 11, 2001

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1967 Mercury Cougar, 49k

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i am somehow related to one of the American pilots that got in the air that day.

my grandfather was also a chief engineer in the Army Air Corps (Air force)

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I wasn't too busy to remember, just too busy to post anything here. December 7th was one of those defining moments for Americans. It's a shame that a nation has to be attacked or threatened from outside in order to pull together and accomplish great things, but accomplish them we did.

I hope all of that is not completely behind us.

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