Dec 7th, 1941 --- Never Forget

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Dec 7th, 1941 --- Never Forget

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The most pivotal event of the century? Everything that followed did so in part because of that.

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Sad to say, we forgot Pearl Harbor a long time ago.

We also forgot the concentration camps in Germany.

We also forgot the fundamental issues at stake during the formation of our OWN nation. The Bill of Rights, which was intended to be a list of things the government dare not intrude upon, has become a bill of needs... a list of things that citizens want the government to provide for them, by taking away from other citizens.

We now have the majority of the electorate thinking that you pick who to vote for based on who will give you the most stuff...!

The vast majority of the 'millennial generation' is so materialistic, that they not only judge everyone not only by their skin color, genitalia, and religion, but they additionally assume that the criteria for 'success' in life is completely related to money and materialism.

I hate to admit it, but those of us in the 'Baby Boomer' generation, who were the spawn of the 'Greatest Generation', mostly SUCKED....at raising children.

We were so determined to prevent them having to endure the hardships we experienced growing up.... going out at 5 in the morning in this sleet to run our paper route, for a measly $10 a week or so, that we woke up with our kids and drove them around in our SUVs so they could play at having a 'job' while we really did half the work.

The 'Greatest Generation' may have birthed us, but many of them seem to feel that their job was simply to make enough money after post World War II jobs to send us off for great educations so we could be financially secure. They forgot the part about making us understand history and religion and politics and economics and fundamental moral issues that they took for granted, and assumed we would somehow embed into our own lifestyles.

The end result was to raise a generation of financially powerful, politically influential IDIOTS who have destroyed subsequent generations.

As the baby boomer generation settles into retirement, we can either sit back and enjoy the fruits of our labors, content that we have raised the generation of financially secure children and grandchildren, or we can get off our butts and educate those children and grandchildren as to the TRULY important things in life, and the REAL role of government....

I know what MY approach has been and will continue to be. Unfortunately many 'boomers' are content to watch things deteriorate and gripe about it, but not do anything to prevent the destruction of our great nation.
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Some of us will never forget.
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Yeah, the "snooooozemediums" can't remember it, but I do. Thanks to the ones we lost, the ones you lost, and the courage of the survivors.
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Our allaboutMElinnials are going to be slaves by the time they are my age. Being a BoomXer, I heard that the two generations that I am on the dividing line of were bad. They were nothing like the current generation.
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As the pleasant surprise/late arrival Gen X child of Greatest Generation parents, I have to agree with the post above. Boomers have done a particularly poor job of raising children, but the real problem hasn't been the parents so much as the teachers.

Running around smoking pot, dodging the draft, making love not war, and killing God may have been a hoot, but millennials suck and it is boomers' fault. The Communists that today control indoctrination in the guise of education are direct descendents of, and have been mentored by,post War boomer liberals. I agree with Doc's suggestion that trying to make it so kids had it easier than their parents did is a huge part of it. The road to millennial Hell was paved with good intentions.

Anyway, my father was at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, "a day that will live in infamy". As the newest, most junior Ensign in the US Navy who had arrived at Pearl on December 6th, he was still ashore on the morning of the 7th and, as far as I know, will have mostly run around wondering what to do that morning while battling a hangover. In November of 1942, he had his ship shot out from under him and spent a day in the water. By VJ Day, he was skipper of a destroyer escort at the ripe old age of 26. He remained in the Navy Reserves the rest of his life and, as a child I recall our dining in the mess at Westover AFB during the winding down of Vietnam.

So, I remember the Day of Infamy and those who avenged us.
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Those of us who received an actual education in the once mighty United States of America, and in the once superior public school education system will not EVER forget...

And then there are the sad lot... The current victims of the government's public child political indoctrination network who were either never taught, have been taught perverted information, or who have been harried to conveniently forget that such monumental disasters have occurred in our history, for expedience sake.

The failure to remember is an overt political and strategic choice that has been made by our political masters.

They want our children stupid. They want our children unaware and unable to recognize danger and or potential enemies. They want our children ignorant and dependent on them for the "truth".

We must depend on ourselves to pass on our valued history. Ask your fathers. Tell your children. Read an f'ing book if you have to.

Don't wait or count on anyone else to do it for you.

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My family has a strong connection to the USS Vestal. Even though my grandfather (who served on her), and my uncles (who were WWII sailors) are gone, we have a special place in our collective memory for those who died on that day.
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No family died on that day, at least as far as I know. 3 Uncles served in WWII, and we all love our Country, so we did have a connection. Merle got it right in his song Fightin' Side.
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