Let's not forget

[jnyork]

December 7, 1941, a day which will live in infamy:

http://www.history.com/speeches/fdr-ask ... r-on-japan

[jeepnik]

Sort of a family holiday. My grandfather's last ship was the USS Vestal. She was moored along side the USS Arizona. My grandfather had been medically retired (heart attack) earlier in 1941. He lost shipmates that day.

After war was declared, my grandfather managed to get his medical status changed and he went back in the Navy (folks from Navy families know about the old chiefs network, and being a "China" sailor just added to his "network"). Sadly he was never able to go to sea to avenge his lost shipmates. He died late in 1942 from a heart attack. Some in the family, me included, think he may have lived longer had he gone to sea. He was truly happy there as no where else.

[Blaine]

Mom always said I had shirttail relatives on the Arizona that dies. When her and step-dad visited me in 73 (I was stationed at Schofield Barracks) she showed me their names.....

[Gaucho Gringo]

I having been born 10 years after PH, have only recollections of growing up when it was a big deal. My father joined the Marines the morning after, Dec 8,1941. I have the watch his father gave him when he left for boot camp, on the back was engraved with his initials and date, VLG Dec 8 1941. He was not to see his family for another 3 1\2 years and to never see his sister or grandmother ever again or even attend their funerals as they both died while he was overseas, He was in the first wave in the War in the Pacific, never getting shot but contacting malaria, jungle rot and a few other jungle diseases which probably contributed to his early death at age 56. My FIL joined the Marines in 1944, being younger. He was in the first wave after the bomb on Nagasaki and was the only survivor of his unit that was still alive when I met my wife 32 years ago in 1982. He had health problem to the day he died. I am 64 now and never forget Dec 7, 1941 as to me it is personal in the way it affected both my father and FIL and the others who came home and the families of those who gave their lives and especially those who lost their lives at Pearl Harbor. May we never forget.

[octagon]

I drink coffee once a week with a 90 yo Marine who fought the Japs in the Pacific Theater. He does not talk about it much and I don't prod him about it ever. I delivered him a truckload of firewood a few weeks ago, and noticed there are no Jap vehicles at his place. He is 6'2" and still a stout fella, and grabbed a big round of firewood under one arm and then tossed it on the porch for that night.

[hondo1892]

This is a date that will soon be forgotten more than likely. I'm forty eight and there are a lot of people my age that have no clue what the date means. I had two uncles in the navy in WWll one is still around, just turned 94 I think. He never talks much about the war either. Heard him and some other guys talking once about it and that was only time. My FIL is Polish and lived in the Warsaw ghetto for about a year and was in one of Hitlers "camps" for seven months. He made it to the states right after the war. It's a shame our schools don't teach history and respect anymore. Many parents are the same.

[AJMD429]

I having been born 10 years after PH, have only recollections of growing up when it was a big deal.

Too bad the people growing up now don't even think the Twin Towers was a 'big deal'; many of them barely know what happened.

[BrianSH]

I having been born 10 years after PH, have only recollections of growing up when it was a big deal.

Too bad the people growing up now don't even think the Twin Towers was a 'big deal'; many of them barely know what happened.

And slick willie knob job gets a full pass for his complacency leading up to it. - Brian

[Grizz]

http://www.azcentral.com/longform/life/ ... autologin=

some of us remember on purpose

everyone's family history is forever altered even if they don't know about it.

there's more hard rain coming

[Bullard4075]

Interesting tidbit for the Shaw clan about the Pearl Harbor attack. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Shaw_%28DD-373%29

[Griff]

My B-I-L's birthday. Sad day. But Pearl Harbor definitely impacted all our lives; same as 9/11 and its aftermath.

[Merle]

Our history is deliberately re-written by liberals. Look at a current history book & you'll see what I mean.

[Ysabel Kid]

I will never forget. Granted, this was 23 years before I was born, but I was also educated before current leftists rewrote the history of WWII. Visiting the Arizona Memorial was one of the moments of my life I will never forget. God bless them all.

[M. M. Wright]

I'm a '39 model so was only 2 at the time but I sure remember ration stamps for just about everything. My Daddy was 4F but he worked at the "Bomber Plant" during the whole thing. I vividly remember VJ (victory in Japan) night when he got drunk and slept all night in the yard. We had many family members serving.

[Carlsen Highway]

My grandfather was at Schofield Barracks on the 7th December 1941. He was in the 25th infantry and later went to Guadalcanal and the Phillipines.

[Ben_Rumson]

Indelibly,Yesterday December 7th, I saw the Battleship Arizona blow up like I had never seen before.... This was because
Hi Definition Digital footage was recently rendered from the original print (resides in the National Archives)that was made that fateful day... Stop frame and SloMo revealed astonishing detail... Revealed were two near miss bomb splashes right next to her bow ... Then her forward tower heaving up 30 ft. upon detonation of the fatal bomb strike in her magazine...Objects identified as burning powder bags that were flung from the magazine were revealed tumbling away... The resulting simultaneous 10 foot tidal wave from the explosion is shown crashing ashore on Ford Island... There are many other fascinating details that are too difficult to describe ... A picture is worth 1K ...