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Google's vs Bing on Pearl Harbor Day. I think I prefer Bing's page.

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Basil - thanks for posting this. I was really steamed on December 7 last year when I posted a similar topic, and there were no replies or comments at all. Over 2000 Americans killed, and 79 years later - nothing at BCF. And half of those men killed are still inside the USS Arizona, at the bottom of the harbor.

Thank you sir. And thank you for your service.
Tom M.
 
Basil said:
Google's vs Bing on Pearl Harbor Day. I think I prefer Bing's page.

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I was 3 years old when the attack happened, but later, early in my childhood, it was pretty much the main topic for everyone. My dad and one uncle were in the merchant marines at the time and they made 3 trips delivering supplies to England and Italy. U boats were sinking everything they could get a shot at, but as luck would have it Dad and my uncle's ship never got hit. (y) They came home in 1945. Dad rarely ever said anything about the war.
 
Paul - here's something you don't see every day. I've seen "Remember Pearl Harbor!" on posters, and even 1940s song titles, for many years. But the first published "poster" didnt' say that. Maybe because the attack that day wasn't only on Hawaii.

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And note the words at the top of the poster.
 
NutmegCT said:
I was really steamed on December 7 last year when I posted a similar topic, and there were no replies or comments at all.
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Tom, it probably wasn't lack of respect. More likely people remembered in other ways and in other venues. Also, keep in mind that some of us were not yet born when this happened. I was -9 at time. While my Dad was a 19 year old combat medic - Utah and Battle of the Bulge - he seldom talked about his experiences (we knew it had a profound affect on him though). How sad it is that it takes something as horrific as what happened 80 years ago to bring the country together - if only fleetingly.
 
Thanks Basil. I never thought there was a lack of respect in anyone. Just seems that we often post about disasters, even historical ones, and get some good comments of acknowledgment. On a related tack, here's an oldie for you:


I note the line "History, in every century, records an act that lives forever more".

Sammy Kaye and is Orchestra, 1942!
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Thanks.
Tom M.
 
I considered posting something yesterday but since there was nothing I wondered if it might be considered moving too much in a political direction and that this could be why no one else had. My father didn't serve then, too young, so he got to go to Korea a decade later.
 
For those of you on Facebook, BalsaUSA (a company that makes model airplanes) posted the events of Pearl Harbor in real time on Facebook yesterday.

I am a casual Facebook user, and it took me a few posts to figure it out - however it was really interesting. Photos of a radar station identifying unknown aircraft; a mis-belief of the information; a telegram sent to ships in the area including the words "this is not a drill"; and of course photographs of the bombs and aftermath in the harbor.

Well done. Fascinating and incredibly sobering.
 
Thanks gentlemen - watching recreations and descriptions of the events of that horrible day, including what happened farther west (Philippines, Guam, and Wake Island and on the British Empire in Malaya, Singapore, and Hong Kong), is overwhelming. Infamy is an excellent description.

Imagine Americans flying in to land at Hickam, and seeing the attack as it happened. Where would you go to land? That actually happened.
 
NutmegCT said:
Thanks gentlemen - watching recreations and descriptions of the events of that horrible day, including what happened farther west (Philippines, Guam, and Wake Island and on the British Empire in Malaya, Singapore, and Hong Kong), is overwhelming. Infamy is an excellent description.

Imagine Americans flying in to land at Hickam, and seeing the attack as it happened. Where would you go to land? That actually happened.
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As did a couple pilots who scrambled to planes in their pajamas to do air combat with the attackers.
 
I well remember the day of the attack. We had taken a ride in my dad's 1939 Pontiac and my brother and I were sitting on the living room rug listening to the radio. I was 8 years old.
 
Paul - that is quite a memory you have. And anyone who may have heard FDR's voice, live, on the radio - I envy you that experience.
Tom M.
 
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