Pearl Harbor Day

[10X]

I just got into the office and one of my co-workers came in asking for a signoff on a document. When I dated it I said "It is Pearl Harbor day". He acted kind of surprised, it didn't register with him. We talked briefly and he said he wasn't sure what year that was. That was ancient history for him. He had no idea about the history and how ill prepared we were. He is a good guy, just younger. I just hope we never forget that history and the need to be alert and armed against our country's enemies.

 

[dhoomonyou]

and now Im driving a HONDA.

oh well.

 

[SoonerSP101]

____ Japan!!!

 

[Chipperman]

Fifty years from now people will do the same thing with 9/11.
What year was that again??

How many of your coworkers even know what Armistice day is, nevermind the date?

 

[ArmedBear]

At least you're not driving a Mitsubishi.

 

[glockman19]

Thank You to everyone who has served.

 

[dhoomonyou]

What a wonderful photo.

RIP

MY dad served in WW2 in both the army and the navy.

FYI there was a person named Jerry Della Famina who wrote a book "from those wonderful folks that brought you pearl harbor".

It was published in the 1960's just as the ad firm he WAS working for was pitching the SONY account.

SONY did not take to kindly to the book which was a satire of how the Japanese lost the war but now had us by the short ones.

Needless to say the agency DID NOT get the SONY account, and he lost his job.

He opened his own agency, did quite well, and opened a gourmet restaurant.

 

[greenflash107]

I second that Glockman! And that picture says it all. God bless all of those that served and still do.

 

[xsquidgator]

My Uncle Ralph did a couple years in the US Army in the late 1950s and then went on to spend his entire working life as a tool and die maker at Ford in Detroit. I remember as a kid when we were visiting he'd tell me he liked to watch old war movies on the tube "where we're beating the hell out of the Japs". Rest in peace, Uncle Ralph.

How things have changed since Pearl Harbor day. When I was a submarine officer stationed in Pearl Harbor in the early 90's, a Japanese submarine made a port call to Peal Harbor and tied up at the pier just a hundred yards down from us at the Sub Base (right in the smack middle of the base that got attacked in 1941, right across from the USS Arizona.) Walking past in uniform once I got a salute from some of the Japanese sailors walking back to their boat. Seems to me like I should have something deep to say but I don't, but today should be a solemn day of remembrance.

 

[andrewdl007]

I was interested to see on the History channel that the Japanese pilots who attacked Pearl Harbor were angered and ashamed that the Diplotamts had acted so slow and caused their attack to be dishonerable.

 

[Hardware]

I was interested to see on the History channel that the Japanese pilots who attacked Pearl Harbor were angered and ashamed that the Diplotamts had acted so slow and caused their attack to be dishonerable.

As always, old men start the wars and young men fight and die in them.

The Arizona still leaks fuel oil to this day. Pearl Harbor veterans say that she will stop when the last survivor of that day dies. Here's hoping she leaks oil for many more years. And many more years of peace to the veterans, they've earned it.

 

[revamp]

One of the most sobering moments during my time of service was "manning the rails" of my aircraft carrier as we pulled into Pearl Harbor just after dawn. This was just a few short weeks following the 9/11 attacks. Looking down at the Arizona with its pool of fuel-oil tears at the surface brought a lump to my throat and still does to this day.

 

[Tommygunn]

In 1987 I took a vacation in Hawaii and visited the Arizona Memorial (a must for anyone who goes there). It was absolutly a somber and sobering experinced.
So much horror and death on such a beautiful island ......

I was also impressed that Pearl Harbor is actually a fairly small area; much smaller than I had concieved it before seeing it.

 

[Jim Watson]

When I visited Pearl Harbor in 1990 the main thing I noticed was the number of Japs taking the tour. I had little difficulty translating the jabber: "Uncle Wakamoto dropped a torpedo on that one over there." Disgusting.

 

[22_Shooter]

____ Japan!!!

Real "High Road".

 

[armoredman]

We manned the rails for the Arizona in '88, not a dry eye at those gunwales.