O/T Let us remember Pearl Harbor

Thank you boys...

 

December 7, 1941

A day that will live in infamy.

 

Absolutely. A lot of people gave their lives so that we could be here,free,today.

 

Never forget!.....I'd rather see my sister in a ***** house, than my brother in a jap car!!!!!!!..........OLDBEET

 

Thank you to all who served.

 

Amen. I wasn't there...or even a thought at the time. Any survivors here on the HAMB? Thanks.

 

What beet said.Not original, but to the point. Thanks for the sacrifices. It is reported that 1000 WW2 vets are dying each day.

 

Mitsubishi, Kawasaki,...etc

Remember the Zero, Val, Zeke Betty

All products of thiers.

never forget

 

Actually they stole the Zero from Hughes....Never forget..been to the memorial, both of my Grandpas are vets, one in the pacific, one in europe, both survived thankfully for me!

 

A big Thank You! To all who served. Many are gone now. R.I.P.

 

As on topic as anything that's been on here before El C.

If the vets hadn't done what they'd done, those of us West of the Rockies would be speaking Japanese and those on the East would be speaking German.
That was the Axis plan for splitting up America.

My favorite uncle, a Marine, died on Iwo Jima and I still miss him.
He was on his third voluntary tour.

The WW2 vets are to be commended and thanked every day, but especially so on this day.


Thanks as well to our Vets from Vietnam, the Gulf War and the present war.

 

Thanks to all!

On this day, a fella came up to my grandpa and said, "They bombed Pearl Harbor." Grandpa was just a young, ignorant farmboy that starved and froze to death since his dad lost EVERYTHING in 29 replied, "Where's Pearl Harbor?" Little did he know that event would impact him the rest of his life....

I know I talk about my gramps a lot- I feel like a little kid in doing so. But, he's my pal and, between he and the HAMB are my only two sources for hot rod stuff...

Thanks to ALL that stepped up!

 

My Dad and all my uncles served......some of the uncles never came home.

As a side note and somewhat O/T.....my Father and Mother got engaged on Saturday night, December the 6th, 1941....the night before Pearl Harbor.

I would have taken that as a BAD sign....thankfully they did'nt....and here I am......arriving in 1948 They were Married a month after Pearl Harbor.

Thanks to ALL who have served.....so we can be like we are and enjoy life as we know it.

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Second that. Thank you to all the service men. God Bless America

 

If it wasn't for the Japanese bombing Pearl Harbor, (right on schedule?) and giving Roosevelt the excuse a President needed to go to war at that time (unlike now when any invented excuse will do) My Dad wouldn't have been drafted out of Shreveport LA and sent TO FIGHT THE GERMANS who were attacking England, where my RAF Corporal Mother decided "he was the one" and I wouldn't be here.

Get over it!

I prefer to remember December 7th 1992, the day Wife started working for HONDA R & D and she's going to get another one of those really healthy raises HONDA she gets every year, today...

How about we hate the BRITISH for invading and actually burning down the WHITE HOUSE and New Orleans in 1812-1814? (Not really, I'm 1/2 British, 1/2 Texan, with ancestors from New Orleans, but just as stupid.)

Yes, as long as this stupid **** comes up every year this will be my response to it.

 

My grandfather is a Pearl Harbor Survivor and I am a member of the PHSA family group. My grandfather always was a very active person. He got the Pearl Harbor Survivors their own license plate and stamp here in California. He also had the U.S. Navy ship over pieces of the U.S.S. Arizona for a memorial he built in Lake Isabella,Ca. 1 of 3 places pieces of it are. Pearl, Lake Isabella and in Arizona. The original memorial burnt down a few years ago, but they moved the pieces to the local park where my grandfather had a tank and amphibious carrier donated by the Army. You dont think much about it normally, but when you see its touching. Amazing the feelings a twisted piece of metal can provoke.....
Age is taking his toll on him and we have almost lost him a few times in the last year, but he still can tell me stories of loud noises and fires and planes overhead......

Remember Pearl Harbor

 

Thanks to all that served then and now........how about a anniversary gift for them and fire up the old Enola Gay.

 

my grandma past away 2 months ago. if she would have lived 3 more days, her and grampa would have been married 60 years... gramps wasnt much of a talker but after gramma past he started talking aabout the war... he knows im kinda a war buff, he brought pics from iwo jima to our resturant one night. some were pretty harsh.. but the one that floored me was the one of the boys planting the flag ...it was a real pic...not a copy!!!! that was amazing.... god bless them all....gotta a buddy in the 224th coming home in a week...great and amizing people..... ps... named my 53 after gramma and my daughter jenny grace.......

 

Dr.J, I'm over it, however is it wrong to remember those who died? I'm pretty disappointed in your response.

 

agreed... the reason for the day isnt to drag up memories of hate, people who hate like that do it all the time. its a day to remember the dead, honor their memory and move on

 

and this is why Ryan has asked, repeatedly, that there be NO POLITICAL posts, of ANY kind, yes this would be considered a political post as I'm sure there are more views of Dec 7 1941 than just those of the good Doc and the ones who've stated thier patriotism here, me? what's my view on it? It don't matter, that was 64 years ago, I wasn't born yet, I can't make an honest evaluation, only one tainted with the propaganda of the past and the nostalgiac waxings of the present.

Skip

 

December 7th....Slap a Jap day.

Beep

 

Well said.

Fire up the Enola Gay? What the **** for?

 

No,
but it's wrong to perpetually place blame on the children of the children of the people who were involved, as some obviously do, as a result of "remembering".

There are NO innocent nations of people when it comes to war agression.
Ask the Native Americans....

There's always been bad and there is always some good eventually comes out of it for some of the people involved.
I wouldn't be here if Dad hadn't been drafted.
Some may disagree, but I count that as a good thing.

How many of you use Japanese cameras?

 

Remembering people is not political.

However, the responses have turned this political. I am disappointed that the haters on both sides of the question turned out and instead of honoring our dead decided to turn this into a ******* contest. You all ought to be ashamed of yourselves.

I have already asked Ryan to lock this thread.

 

Thanks to the Soldiers and Saliors who fought the good fight, they are the ones who came home and started choppin tops and swappin 4 bangers for Flatties.

This is about tradition, weather you hate it or love it...RESPECT IT.

Gabe Long,
U.S. Muthafukkin N.

 

This thread has confirmed my su****ions in some of you.

 

Thank you to all who served, you are never forgotten.

 

We already did Memorial day and Veterans day for that...

 

I was just at the Memorial on my honeymoon. It was very humbling... to see the "tears of the dead" bubbling to the top. How about the Utah? History has forgotten the Utah, but there are 50 men buried in that ship at the bottom of the harbor. Over 1000 in the Arizona PLUS their shipmates who started being interred there 60 years later... a few more every year since the 90s when the Navy started allowing it.

There were sooooo many Japanese in Hawaii on vacation. I had no idea. Lots at the museum and memorial too. I saw a show where every year, today, vets of BOTH sides meet at a ceremony at the memorial and remember their fallen brothers. THAT is why I remember Dec 7th. If the men who took place can set aside their differences, then who the **** am I to hold a grudge. Not that I every really did (I'm only 35) but I have studied WWII since I learned to read, and now participate in reenactments.

That single event really shaped how the rest of the 20th century would play out.