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A date when America was attacked without warning, by a nation of people devoted to a racist and brutal ideology centered around devout religious beliefs were able to justify all manner of atrocity if it served their deity.
2,403 Americans were killed and 1,178 others were wounded.
Yes, it rings a bell.
We must be vigilant.
I'm equipping my truck with a carbine, as I feel under gunned with just a G19.
SilverBullet432
12-07-15, 16:13
Yes, it rings a bell.
We must be vigilant.
I'm equipping my truck with a carbine, as I feel under gunned with just a G19.
Careful now, those weapons of war could be counted as an arsenal! :sarcastic:
The Greatest Generation, they are and always will be.
If you know a WW2 Vet tell him thank you before they are all gone.
I wished talked to my great uncle about his time in Okinawa. He was my favorite relative. A very sweet man. Until the Japanese came up. Even Chineese food would set him off. It want until years after he was gone when I read Helmet For My Pillow and Old Corps that I realized a little bit about what he had been through.
My dad was on Okinawa, I still have some black and white pictures he took while there.
He never talked about it and we could not bring it up. Did not find the pictures until after his death 1985 they were in his sea chest with his uniforms.
bad scan # 1 turret on USS Arizona
https://www.m4carbine.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=36405&d=1392589626
after PH when we retaliated and sank there supply fleet in the Pacific
https://www.m4carbine.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=36403&d=1423253684
Japanese soldier
https://www.m4carbine.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=36404&d=1392676865
been watching WWII stuff last few days !
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Moose-Knuckle
12-08-15, 03:35
Honu has me beat by a long shot with his dive pics, when I visited Pearl Harbor I took hundreds of photos. Here are some of the standouts . . .
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/575/23309045300_6b50b6104b_k.jpg
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5663/23236841699_b2b5726fad_k.jpg
The tears of the USS Arizona, oil that seeps from her to this day . . .
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5681/23496220412_a533edce32_k.jpg
Who realized it didn't become a national remembrance day until 1987?
http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1987/120787c.htm
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
On December 7, Americans everywhere commemorate the 46th anniversary of the morning in 1941 when our Armed Forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, were subjected to a surprise aerial strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy. That attack killed 2,403 Americans and wounded 1,178 others -- and caused our Nation to enter World War II.
America was unprepared for war, but we quickly resolved to do what must be done in defense of our country. Knowing that in war there can be no substitute for victory, the American people summoned a great national effort in military strength and industrial activity. The sacrifices of our military personnel at Pearl Harbor became the prelude to those our brave fighting forces were to endure around the globe for the next three and one-half years. When the terrible conflict ceased and the peace was won, America's freedom remained intact and we had taken on a crucial role as the leader of the world's democracies and bulwark of international peace.
On December 7, America remembers much and resolves much. We remember Pearl Harbor's dead and wounded and its courageous survivors who fought that day and many other days as well. We remember too one of history's clearest lessons, that weakness and unpreparedness do not build peace but invite aggression. We remember that our freedom, purchased at so dear a price, can be taken from us. And we resolve that that shall never be. We resolve that our strength, our vigilance, and our devotion will forever keep America the land of the free and the home of the brave. We resolve that we will keep faith with those we have loved and lost. And we resolve that, always, we will remember Pearl Harbor.
The Congress, by Senate Joint Resolution 105, has designated December 7, 1987, as ``National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day'' and has authorized and requested the President to issue a proclamation in observance of this day.
Now, Therefore, I, Ronald Reagan, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim December 7, 1987, as National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, and I call upon the people of the United States to observe this solemn occasion with appropriate ceremonies and activities and to pledge eternal vigilance and strong resolve to defend our Nation and its allies from all future aggression.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this seventh day of December, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-seven, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twelfth.
Ronald Reagan
Remembering Pearl Harbor: The Sacrifice of Fr. AL Schmitt, the first Catholic chaplain to die in the Second World War.
http://catholicexchange.com/remember-pearl-harbor-the-sacrifice-of-fr-al-schmitt
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I had a great uncle who served in the Pacific in the Army, and my grandfather fought in Europe in the Army. Gramps never would talk about the war at all. He would tell stories about boot camp, but never of any action he had seen. My uncle was like others that fought in the Pacific, anything Asian would set him off most of the time. I did a history paper on him one time in college, and he opened up and talked to me about his service. I recorded it on a cassette tape, and of course through the years it's been lost. I would love to find that tape, and go back to 1993 or so to remember his exact words.
They truly are the Greatest Generation, and coincidentally the last war we as a nation had a pair and decided the enemy was going to be completely and totally defeated. It's true as stated above, we need to be vigilant and ready.
Moose-Knuckle
12-08-15, 15:40
I had a great uncle who served in the Pacific in the Army, and my grandfather fought in Europe in the Army. Gramps never would talk about the war at all. He would tell stories about boot camp, but never of any action he had seen. My uncle was like others that fought in the Pacific, anything Asian would set him off most of the time. I did a history paper on him one time in college, and he opened up and talked to me about his service. I recorded it on a cassette tape, and of course through the years it's been lost. I would love to find that tape, and go back to 1993 or so to remember his exact words.
They truly are the Greatest Generation, and coincidentally the last war we as a nation had a pair and decided the enemy was going to be completely and totally defeated. It's true as stated above, we need to be vigilant and ready.
I wished I had sat down with my great uncle before he passed. One of the reasons I didn't was I was so young while he was till alive and the next is he NEVER talked about it. He was a Sergeant in Company B of the 359th Infantry Regiment of the 90th Infantry Division (aka Tough 'Ombres). The Regiment landed at Utah Beach on 6 June 1944, D-Day.
My grandfather, his brother, served in Europe as well in the Army Air Corps.
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