Remembering Pearl Harbor Day today.
And thanks to the men and women of the DoD in the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency and the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System in Hawaii who are working to identify the unknown dead from the USS Oklahoma such as the two sailors identified and brought home in the last month: http://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/community/arlington/article156870064.html
http://www.newscenter1.tv/story/36505698/south-dakota-sailors-remains-identified-buried-at-arlington
https://wtop.com/national/2017/12/100-killed-in-pearl-harbor-attack-identified-after-76-years/
The lovely Ms. Shark24 and I were in Hawaii back in Sept for a wedding and since she had never visited the Arizona memorial before, we spent a morning at the museum plus the shuttle to the Arizona. I can not recommend this visit highly enough to anyone visiting Oahu. The museum complex is very well done and a big upgrade from my last visit 30 years ago when I was in the USAF. It is a great reminder to all that although our adversaries are different, vigilance is still the word of the day. May God rest the souls entombed there and all those souls that have sacrificed all ( in this world anyway) to give us the incredible life we are able to pursue here in the USA.
We say “greatest generation” and I, with many others, actually belive it.
As a retired soldier, I’m humbled by the price they paid. I had one old friend, passed now, who had joined the Nacy out of high school but before the war began, before Dec 7, 41.
He was in for the duration plus.
That’s the case with that generation. They were in for the duration, some for 4 years and more.
Those of us who’ve endured the real difficulty of a one year deployment, and I’m not downplaying the very real cost of that sacrifice, stand in awe of those gone for 2, 3, and 4 years.
It’s just extremely humbling when we read about what they did, the price they paid.
Thank Almighty God for them
Thanks for the ping and your comment at post #5.