[simpson96]

44 (AP) photos total, at link.

[ealgeone]

Japanese screwed up big time in attacking PH. They'd been better off if they'd only attacked colonies of the UK and other European countries.

Getting the US involved in WW2 resulted in the ultimate downfall of both Germany and Japan...and Japan paid a pretty stiff price for their attack.

[Pollster1]

As terrible as that single event was, it did far less damage than the enemy attack we suffered from January 20, 2009 through January 20, 2017. I thank God that we survived both disasters.

[4yearlurker]

My Uncle Hank was at Pearl Harbor the day of the attack. I remember being a wide eyed 15 year old kid as he told his stories. He said he was writing out Christmas cards when he heard all the explosions and like everybody else ran outside to see what was going on.

[Savage Beast]

There was an enormous difference between the American response to the December 7, 1941 attack and the attack on September 11, 2001.

In 60 years, America went from its finest hour to its most ignominious, from raising the flag on Mount Suribachi to burning the flag in America's universities, from the greatest generation to the most decadent, from its zenith to its nadir, from Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman to George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama.

[albie]

My father was there. Getting breakfast at Schofield Barracks. That’s all he’d say about it. After WWII, he was in the Korean War, then 2 tours in Vietnam.

For 3 decades he dealt with major conflicts. Didn’t talk about any of them. My mother told me that he was put in charge of the attempt to identify the dead that came out of the death camps in 1945. The horrors he saw I can’t imagine.

He retired a Master Sergeant in the Army after 27 years. He is in Arlington National as of 2005 with all 3 wars on his tombstone.

When we called Arlington to report his death and reserve a date and time for burial, the guy said, “Wow. If anybody earned the right to be here, it’s your father”.

Nothing infuriates me more than the kneeling of the NFL. If my father were alive he’d be angry but wouldn’t show it. He was too tired to show his emotions IMO.

[rlmorel]

BFL

[Rummyfan]

A date which shall live in infamy....