Remember The Date 12/7/1941

[Tailhunter]

“The United States marked the 80th anniversary of the Japanese attack on the U.S. naval base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Tuesday as the number of Americans belonging to the “greatest generation” who lived through World War Two dwindles.”

https://www.digitaljournal.com/worl...ary-of-pearl-harbor-day/article#ixzz7ENTEk5kC

 

[The Last Outlaw]

Remembering those who gave their lives all those years ago on this day. As FDR said, "A day that will live in infamy..."

 

[bondjamesbond]

There were three guys in my hometown that survived the attack on Pearl Harbor. They all died still hating the Japanese.
Truly was a horrible day for the US. But how many of our youths even know what happened 80 years ago today?
History is being erased everyday right in front of our eyes.
The cancel culture is trying to erase it all by denying it ever happened, or painting soldiers and leaders as the oppressors. Or minimizing their acts into something less.
A new book out is being hailed as groundbreaking work by it's portraying the Japanese as the victims. The title of the book will never come out of my mouth
This happened to a WWI memorial in Canada. We won't be able to identify the western hemisphere from China or Russia in a few years.

 

[Inglis]

I remember.

 

[LTC Don]

Remembering those who gave their lives all those years ago on this day. As FDR said, "A day that will live in infamy..."

The full speech, a must watch. 🇺🇸

President Roosevelt's "Day of Infamy" Address to Congress

President Roosevelt addressed a Joint Session of Congress on December 8, 1941, the day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. President Roosevelt denounced the attack and asked Congress for a declaration of war on Japan. This film was digitally restored by the Franklin D. Roosevelt...

www.c-span.org

 

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[Aardvark]

Around 2008 I was in a small town, I think Mocksville, on a work-related thing with a few hours to kill and wandered into a shelter-area in a Municipal Park. There was one old man in there wearing a ball cap that said "Pearl Harbor Survivor" on it so I asked. Over the next hour and a half or so we talked. He was 17 years old and newly in The Navy, and had been sent ashore from the Oklahoma to a warehouse to get kitchen supplies when the bombing started. He was fighting in the Pacific when the war ended. Hearing his story was one of the most humbling and fascinating experiences I've ever had.

 

[Grits]

My family (Moms side) still has a family member onboard the USS Arizona. I think about them every year about this time.

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[Chuckman]

I saw an old man on a bench outside the front entrance of Duke Hospital wearing a Pearl Harbor Survivor hat. I sat down, we chatted for an hour. He was a stud.