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What a powerful moment. There are currently only 9 living survivors from Arizona. Seven of them made the trip to Pearl Harbor this year in what is likely their final reunion.
The salvage operation for the other damaged battleships was quite remarkable and one of the lesser known stories of the war.
The salvage operation for the other damaged battleships was quite remarkable and one of the lesser known stories of the war.
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We were in Hawaii 2 years ago and visited the memorial.
We took tons and tons of photos everywhere else, but I really couldn't bear to take photos of the memorial. It's a site of powerful emotions.
My mother-in-law told me yesterday that she remembers hearing Roosevelt telling the nation about it live on the radio. She was 16.
My father-in-law didn't hear about the attack live but it affected him: he was drafted out of college soon after (he went to Europe with the 174th Field Artillery Battalion).
We took tons and tons of photos everywhere else, but I really couldn't bear to take photos of the memorial. It's a site of powerful emotions.
My mother-in-law told me yesterday that she remembers hearing Roosevelt telling the nation about it live on the radio. She was 16.
My father-in-law didn't hear about the attack live but it affected him: he was drafted out of college soon after (he went to Europe with the 174th Field Artillery Battalion).
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I was 5 at the time and remember everyone being so upset when listening to the radio. I knew something bad had happened but no one would tell us kids what happened. We wouldn't have understood anyway. It wasn't until after the war did I get the idea of what happened. We didn't get a TV until late in 1947 and then we saw news footage of what happened. On a 5" screen at that! Later we saw it in the movies News. Yes, they ran the news in theaters before the movie. PJ
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Don't recall the names right now but my hometown, which then was a population of about 3500, lost 4 guys on the Arizona. High school friends who requested and were allowed to serve together. Must have been quite a blow at the time for so many to be listed from such a relatively small population.
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Yesterday would have been my Dad's 99th Birthday. He was already in the Army Air Corps when the attack occurred. He was stationed at Jackson Mississippi and was enjoying a birthday cake at the home of a civilian who had invited him home when she learned it was his birthday (some how it was announced at the church service) and he was called to report to base over the local radio. The next day he was on the train to San Francisco, and then spent the next few years in New Guinea. Pearl Harbor Day always has an additional meaning to me, although I have not been back to the Arizona Memorial since 1969.
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My dad, who would be 98 today, was in the Army when it was announced the Merchant marines needed men to serve on the ships. He and my uncle signed over and was on one of the few ships that made it through the North Atlantic without getting hit by German U-Boats, delivering supplies to the British. They made two safe trips to the UK on the John Ireland. The next trip they went into a mined harbor in Naples delivering supplies after the Germans were pushed back. Dad was in the middle of the Atlantic when Pearl Harbor was hit. When they got back to the states, they were docked up until further orders came down, they never did, the war was ended and him and my uncle came home without incident. They were very lucky! PJ
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My father was too young for WW2 so he went to Korea a few years later. But he had a cousin who served in the Merchant Marine, was sunk twice and survived several attacks in his ships. Fell from the masthead doing repairs in New Orleans in 44 and was killed. shows the random nature sometimes of living or dying.
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The British loved the Merchant Marines! No Merchant Marine ever bought a drink in the UK. I guess if you were out of food, medicine, fuel for heat and your vehicles along with being out of supplies to fight off the aggressors and a ship pulls in with all those supplies to get you out of trouble, you'd have a strong tendency to favor the men and women who made this possible. To this day, Merchant Marines are held in high esteem there. Nice, very nice. PJ