In Rememberance . . . Pearl Harbor

Jeana (DP) · Dec 7, 2005

Survivors, sailors to observe Pearl Harbor anniversary

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii - Survivors of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor will join sailors, community leaders and guests on Wednesday for the 64th anniversary of the assault.

The crowd will observe a moment of silence Wednesday morning at the moment the attack began in 1941.

A U.S. Navy ship will honor the USS Arizona, which lies submerged in Pearl Harbor with the bodies of hundreds of sailors still aboard. The Hawaii Air National Guard will fly F-15s in formation over the harbor.

The Navy's chief uniformed officer, Adm. Michael G. Mullen, is scheduled to address the crowd along with Sen. Daniel K. Inouye, D-Hawaii, who saw and heard Japanese planes drop bombs on Oahu as a teenager in Honolulu.

Navy reservists from the USS Ward, which fired the first shots of the war when its crew spotted and sank a Japanese midget submarine, will also be honored.

The Dec. 7, 1941, surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and other military bases on Oahu lasted two hours, leaving 21 U.S. ships heavily damaged and 323 aircraft damaged or destroyed.

It killed 2,390 people and wounded 1,178.

MrsMush99 · Dec 7, 2005

Hubby is a history teacher. He took the movie to school to show his kids. He only shows them the attack scene though.

Casshew · Dec 7, 2005

Today is my Dad's Birthday and he remembers being 15 years old in Glasgow, Scotland when the news came about the attack on the American ships. It is what made him sign up for the military when he was old enough.

Jeana (DP) · Dec 7, 2005

Wow Cassie. I never knew that in all this time!

I was in Hawaii to attend a trial a few years back and we took the time to go to the Arizona Memorial. It will stay with me forever. Very very real and very very heartbreaking.

Casshew · Dec 7, 2005

My girlfriend SuAnne and I are planning a Hawaian cruise for 2007, the Arizona memorial will be a highlight, thats for sure.

Mabel · Dec 7, 2005

Today is also my son's birthday. Somehow it seems appropriate.

Rocky · Dec 7, 2005

today we had a survivor of the Arizona come in and buy a car, he had been driving a Lexus for years, and said he felt guilty every time he went out and turned it on.

He drove the Buick Lucerne and smiled, and said "these are better than any D_mn car the japs make..."

He drove off beaming to head for a memorial celebration...

Casshew · Dec 7, 2005

Mabel said:
Today is also my son's birthday. Somehow it seems appropriate.

Happy birthday to Mabel Jr. :woohoo:

lynie · Dec 8, 2005

My family and I were at Pearl Harbor last month. It was truely an honor (is that what I mean?) to be able to take the kids (teens) there and impress upon them the real implications of war.

It is very sobering to be present at a "battlefield". While many have served our country, a very small percentage of us have actually been to a place where so many were lost.

cappuccina · Dec 7, 2006

...two survivors tell their stories...

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/...pearl07.article

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/.../612070379/1005

Excellent Wikipedia article, with lots of detiled info.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor

President Roosevelt signing the Declaration of War against Japan the next day:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...cember_1941.jpg

Don't you wish our country were in the hands of someone competent, knowledeable and caring like FDR? The things that he did without the technology we have now continue to amaze me...

2sisters · Dec 7, 2006

cappuccina said:
...two survivors tell their stories...

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/...pearl07.article

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/.../612070379/1005

Excellent Wikipedia article, with lots of detiled info.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor

President Roosevelt signing the Declaration of War against Japan the next day:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...cember_1941.jpg

Don't you wish our country were in the hands of someone competent, knowledeable and caring like FDR? The things that he did without the technology we have now continue to amaze me...

I know, his task back then was much more daunting than George's.

cappuccina · Dec 7, 2006

...FDR's famous "Pearl Harbor" speech...

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/fdrpearlharbor.htm

(Quality is excellent; they've gotten rid of any distortion and background noise...)

Interesting that when you run this speech through the various programs that test for content, grammar and "grade level"...this speech comes out at a much higher level than any of Bush's...

Seriously, though, my parents and grandparents said that US citizens felt very protected by FDR, even if they didn't agree with everything he said, and even though he, too, had to send troops into war...

Marthatex · Dec 7, 2006

Our entire nation, all of its people, had to make tremendous sacrifices in order to overcome the evil powers at that time.

Shall we always remember and learn from history. "History, with a capital H, is a living thing" - William Styron

hockeymom · Dec 7, 2006

Back then the enemy was much more"tangable". It was a country attacking,not a group of people scattered all over the world. At least you could say,lets bomb,Japan,Germany,etc... Today the enemy is lurking everywhere.
I wonder how the leaders of the past would deal with a war on terror?

DEPUTYDAWG · Dec 7, 2006

In 1994, I visited Pearl Harbor with my father, a retired Lt. Colonel in the Navy. He knew a few survivors, and he knew a few that died in the attack.

Truly, one of the most jaw-dropping memories I will EVERRRRR have was standing back at the memorial and watching my dad take it all in, very somber...with tears streaming down his face. It was sad, but I will be forever grateful to have witnessed my father go there and reflect. What an honor. One of his favorite things to do is read all (and I mean all!) the Pearl Harbor books, etc. It has so much meaning to him.

I haven't talked to him today - I think I should call him. I know it's a somber day for him today, it always is...

cappuccina · Dec 7, 2006

..and all over the world, actually...

...the main difference was, they did not have access to computers and the technology we have now, so they could not be as silently "well connected" as these groups are now (Thank God)...but, they were there all right...

Here is a brief list of some definitive books on this...

http://intellit.muskingum.edu/wwii_folder/wwiieurope_folder/wwiieurgermany_folder/wwiieurgerops.html

Also:

http://intellit.muskingum.edu/fbi_folder/fbiwwii.html

So, I guess the answer is that FDR, and the American government (civilian and military personnel) did an excellent job in the war on the Axis and Nazi terror during WWII...

Can you imagine doing what FDR did without the things we take for granted now??

cappuccina · Dec 7, 2006

...yes, I'm sure your Dad would love to hear from you today...

Tell your Dad thank you for serving and protecting all of us, and I do mean the collective "us"... Even though I was not born until after WWII, if it were not for the American liberators of the concentration camps, for example, part of my family, as I know it, would not exist...

DEPUTYDAWG · Dec 7, 2006

cappuccina said:
...yes, I'm sure your Dad would love to hear from you today...

Tell your Dad thank you for serving and protecting all of us, and I do mean the collective "us"... Even though I was not born until after WWII, if it were not for the American liberators of the concentration camps, for example, part of my family, as I know it, would not exist...

Thanks, ya know what? I will tell him! He is so very proud of his Naval service, and the Navy, so it'll be an honor to tell him people in this day and age still respect the work they did....

I just emailed him a note, and cried as I typed it. I know how he is about this, I know he will tear up reading it, as well. But I don't know that I ever really told him how meaningful that day was with him...and heck, if I relay that to cyber-strangers, I should at least let him know what an impact it had on me, huh?!

(Yep, I'll still call him tonight, as well.)

Gracelin · Dec 7, 2006

Remembering my Dad today, He survived Pearl Harbor.

cappuccina · Dec 7, 2006

...was he able to talk to you about it?

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