Remembering Pearl Harbor
 

A moment of Silence for all who lost their lives on December 7th 1941


On a quiet Sunday morning December 7, 1941 a Japanese surprise air attack left the Pacific Fleet in smoldering heaps of broken, twisted steel. Here, peace was interrupted and paradise lost. In hours, 2,390 futures were stolen, half of these casualties from the battleship Arizona.


http://www.nps.gov/usar/index.htm

It is a rare time when these days fall on the correct day...Sunday. This is a special day and is second only to 9/11. I hope we don't forget 9/11 like we tend to forget Perl Harbor. We must NEVER FORGET. We owe our life to these Men and Women.:cool:

Re: Remembering Pearl Harbor
 

I appreciate this thread immensely! My father was a Pearl Harbor survivor. He served on the USS Pennslyvania. It was the sistership of the Arizona. He was 18 years old.
Thanks
Ed

I guess my family was lucky in a sense, My grandfather was an MP at the White House during WWII. But His brother was in the South Pacific as a Gunner on a PT Boat. I thank them both and all who served.

If one ever has a chance to see Pearl Harbor jump on it. Going there makes it a little more real. Seeing the Arizona reminds one quickly of the sacrifices that people make for our freedoms. We spent the better part of a day there on our honeymoon. Probably the best part of the trip IMO. It's just something that all should experience.

This could easily go for any other memorial in our nation whether it be the Vietnam Memorial or the others in our nation's capital. Seeing these things is something I'll always cherish.

Buck

only have been to Hawaii once and made sure I visited the USS Arizona - very real

I have a degree in History. So you can understand I don't forget these kind of things. I find it amazing, and a bit disturbing, that when someone tells me their birthday is on Dec. 7th, and I say, "Oh, Pearl Harbor day," they often don't have a clue. They usually say they didn't like history in school and didn't pay attention much. Whatever. Slackers.

Always remember.


'Foul

always remember..

I know it is amazing that some people don't take interest in History. Frankly I find it fascinating. Perhaps that is why 95% of what I watch on TV are documentaries. I'm just drawn to it. Now as for the rest of the reality crap on TV You couldn't pay me to sit through it.

Roby

The Real Story of Pearl Harbor is on the History channel right now. That is what I'm watching.

We have everything to thank these vets for. I think as I've gotten older I've really appreciated what they've done certainly more than when I was younger. You grow up watching Chuck Norris single handedly wiping out the enemy and you don't really have the idea of what the real soldiers went through. As I've met and talked with men who fought in wars and watched movies like Saving Private Ryan, you suddenly realize what a commitment these men made for our country. I think those of us (like myself) who have never had to fight owe these guys a HUGE amount of respect. Thanks to them we can go about our day to day lives that we take so for granted.

Agreed


God Bless!!

The front page of today's official Float Ladadah paper, the estimable "Sun Sentinel" covers: the east coast snowstorm and a special "32 page" section on Haiti's problems!:rolleyes:
There is a very small mention of the jap attack on Hawaii somewhere in the paper, in a rather invisible section of this rag!
If it wasn't for our military out there , we would all be speaking japanese or german or all be muisllims by now!(intentionally not capitalized and/or misspelled, to show disrespect! :p
God bless all of our military!