A very bleak day in American history. Thoughts for the service personnel past and present who do so much to preserve our collective freedom.
the paper related that there are only 4200 survivors left today. could this be right? thanks for what you did.
I was at the Pearl Harbor Memorial this year. Very chilling. Yeah I cried. THANKS TO ALL WHO SERVE. Later,Bill
Ahmen brother. I'm sure everyone knows that the harbor itself was attacked. Airfields across the island were attacked too. Remember our fallen brothers and sisters today: Wheeler Army Air Field, Ohau, HI Even in the desert: Deployed Airmen remember Pearl Harbor Airmen 1st Cl*** George Navarro (left) and Huy-Ryan Nguyen fold the flag while Jesse Lancaster stands by during a retreat ceremony Dec. 7 at an air base in Southwest Asia commemorating the attack on Pearl Harbor 66 years ago. The Airmen are members of the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing honor guard. Brig. Gen. Charlie Lyon, 379th AEW commander, stands at attention in the background. (United States Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Douglas Olsen)
This is a Day that all of America should remember but sadly it is slowly being forgotten....Never Forget...
Too bad we only had two nukes. We could have done some real payback instead of letting them off easy. Woodie Guthrie: This land is your land, this land is my land From California to the New York Island From the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me. As I went walking that ribbon of highway I saw above me that endless skyway I saw below me that golden valley This land was made for you and me. I roamed and I rambled and I followed my footsteps To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts While all around me a voice was sounding Saying this land was made for you and me. When the sun came shining, and I was strolling And the wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling A voice was chanting, As the fog was lifting, This land was made for you and me. This land is your land, this land is my land From California to the New York Island From the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me.
Thank you to all who have served this wonderful country of ours. God bless them all. May we never forget.
2 uncles were stationed in Hawaii during that raid and my parents didn't know for weeks if they survived. After they cleaned up the mess they went right into action and were not seen until after Midway. People don't understand that there were "Millions" of people called to Arms in WWII and that we lost more soldiers in one day than the combined totals of the Gulf and Iraq wars... Freedom isn't Free...! My enlistment date was exactly 33 years ago today... although I never was in combat and I'm proud to say that I served with many brave men that fought in Korea and Vietnam.
So if you have a flag get off your *** and put it up!! I don't have one at my house but I'm going to work on my project at my folks house and the 1st thing I'm doing is putting their's up.
if you havent been there , you should go . the arizona is deteriating , im not sure if they safed it or not . i know it was closed for awhile . i spent 5 months there a few yrs ago ! i got to meet a survior on the bus one day . he was digging a bunker when the first ZERO flew over his house to bomb one of the bases . very interesting gentleman . we talked for 2 hrs. really a great experience . see , being old does have some advantages ! but only a few . ... thx .. steve
I haven't had time to read through the thread, yet, so my apologies if this is a duplicate. "Tora, Tora, Tora...The Real Story of Pearl Harbor" is on the History Channel right now.
My grand pa, C.E. Farley, was a Pearl Harbor survivor. Joined the Navy in 1927 at the age of 15 and stayed in 30 years. Retired a Commander at 45 in 1957. I read last week that we are losing WWII vets at a rate of 1000 per week.
In my bloodline, I have military history that is present in every major US war, beginning in the Civil War. I had two bothers literally fight each other in the Civil War, they recognized each other, dropped their rifles, and walked away. (note: I may have my timeline mixed up below, not sure which happened in which order) I had a great uncle who serves in WWII on various ships. While in the Pacific, he was aboard the USS Indianapolis, which was sunk. Recue forces weren't able to get to the survivors for days. My uncle told my grandfather that he remembered talking to a guy next to him in the water. The guy stopped talking mid-sentence, bobbed up, and then forward, face down. A shark had bitten him in half. I heard the sharks killed more survivors than the continuous enemy strafing runs. Uncle John was picked up after spending almost a WEEK floating in that water. Later, he was onboard the USS Arizona on 07 DEC 41. He took a great deal of shrapnel, much of it was not removable, due to its location in his arteries. In 1965 he died, the shrapnel worked its way into his heart. And I ***** when the A/C goes out in my hooch in Iraq...
God Bless all who served & all who continue to serve. My pop lied about his age to get into the Marines in '45. Those folks survived the Great Depression, WWII, Polio & countless other obstacles to build the country with the freedoms that we enjoy today. Never Forget!
To this day... I'll never own a effin' jap car, I won;t even ride in one of the damm things. The **** were so wicked with what they did to China, Manchuria and to our prisoners...it makes the nazis look like the girl scouts. but, most do not know how bad they really were. they're schools don't even teach what they did. No, I'll never forget Pearl...or they way we let it happen by being asleep that morning. It could have been avoided if we were not so careless. Steve Barcak <DIR>Hosting 11th annual Pontiac Heaven, show, swap, drags, party and all around good time. Saturday April 4, 2009 at Speedworld near Phoenix, Az Also hosting- 7th annual Nostalgia drags, show and swap coming Sunday April 5, 2009 to Speedworld. Phoenix, Az </DIR>
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