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Hubert (Ga)engine7
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Posted: 06 Dec 2020 at 8:52pm |
Tomorrow is the day we remember the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (Dec. 7, 1941) taking over 2400 American lives. Very few people pause to remember it these days, guess it is not "politically correct."
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klinemar
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Lest we forget!
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steve(ill)
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thanks Hubert... yes, with everything going on this year, I did forget !!... just not thinking i suppose.
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festus51
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Hubert thanks for reminder. I am the next generation and have other remembrances also of other conflicts
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Dave H
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Appreciate the heads up Hubert. That was a couple of years before my time, however I do have deep feelings for the price that was paid ( little different than just pushing trillions around) for what we have today.
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DiyDave
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JoeM(GA)
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Yes!, a day they want us to forget!, all the more reason to keep it in our hearts and minds. A lot of brave people lost their lives that morning, but Americans rallied together and fought back. It’s a shame that important moments in history aren’t taught to our young, but almost no history is taught, how will our young learn from mistakes made before them, if they never hear about them. God please bless America, America needs to bless God!
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Thanks H , though I remembered to remember....
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DMiller
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Thanks H
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Kansas99
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Even though it was before my time I always remember. Had a local family that lived just 15 miles south of me and there was only 3 boys in his family. All 3 served on the Arizona, and he was the only survivor of the 3. He has passed now but he would come into a repair shop that I worked my way through college in and I asked him if he had ever went back and visited the Arizona memorial, he simply said "no I have no desire to ever return to that place" Walter was his name his brothers that are forever entombed in the Arizona were Marvin and Wes Becker. Brothers on the USS Arizona
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DougG
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Another sad day, heard this morning going to work a therory of all the other carriers were out in the ocean and just these select ones lined up as setting sucks- even after Washington knew of intimate danger and attacks, never got to deep into this subject but did seem odd- feel sorry for the boys who never had a chance at all to survive
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Dusty MI
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I was one month old.
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caledonian
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Do you know the US Navy fired the first shot at Pearl Harbor that morning when they sank a Japanese midget submarine outside the channel into the harbor? It was reported up the chain of command but ignored. Also the radar sighting of the aircraft approaching was reported but ignored. Our troops on duty were doing their job. Their commanders let them down.
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desertjoe
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Don't want to start a war of words but,,, all them commanders etc that "missed" all the signals prolly wount up in the current cia and fbi,,,,,???? Chit,,I'm outa here,,,,
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DMiller
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Radar was in its infancy, temporary machinery and poor at best as to judging what was coming into HI. Was a flight of B17s headed into H same time and was a mistaken ID as to those that dropped the ball.
As to the first ship to fire a shot, that was a unconfirmed sighting where there had been random sightings by nervous sailors prior, no way to know then if was real or not. They have since found that sub with the Five Inch shell hole thru the Tower Sail. So many things went wrong that day, the entire battle fleet save the carriers in port and at rest, was no reason to know the Japanese were attacking until too late. That from my Dad and Uncle that both served WWII.
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Darrell G (MN)
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I toured the USS Arizona in 1965 and its an emotional visit when you stop and think how quickly they were bombed. If anyone goes to Hawaii make sure you visit the USS Arizona.
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Dan Hauter
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My dad was a Navy veteran of WWII so December 7 was a big day at our house. I'm 65 and I remember the school doing something in remembrance of Pearl Harbor every year. The school flag always flew at half staff.
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tadams(OH)
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Yes my wife and I toured it also, very special to visit there.
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