Posted on 12/02/2005 5:57:53 AM PST by Moonraker
Where was I? Well, since my dad was only 1 1/2 years old, I was nowhere near Pearl so it wasn't my fault. But I'm sure the MSM could find some way to blame George HW for all of it.
In all seriousness though ... may God bless the souls of all of the men that died there on that fateful day.
It possibly would if satellite transmissions and CNN had existed back then.
My mom was born the next day (Dec. 8, 1941).
"I thought her name was Pearl Bailey?"
You can't do that joke in this time of metastasizing PC, but I remember Flip Wilson doing it on TV.
My Mom and Dad, not yet married, were at a Redskins game. My Dad died in 1977, but I remember him telling me that he thought something was going on when lots of young junior officers started coming into Griffith Stadium to tell thier boss what had happened. Of course, these officers and thier bosses immediately left the game. I don't remember if he said there was any PA announcement, or if he learned it for certain once they left the stadium. I'm sure all the papers ran extra's. He was a season ticket holder back then, and I still have them. After the last two weeks I am beginning to think I am out of my mind.
I wasn't born yet. I did have a great uncle who fought in WW2 and became a POW. He was held for a couple of months and my great grandmother received a telegram telling her he was MIA. Somehow he escaped and made it to American troops. Sent home. That is all I know. He would never talk about it. But his mom saved the telegram and she had his dogtags and picture.
I was in my crib, being only 27 days old; maybe my oldest sister was holding me, as she was a great help to my Mom.
Yes,that's the commonly held belief.Assuming that it's true it represents a serious character flaw.
But you have to admit that this country would be *much* better off if the leaders of today's democRAT Party had marital infidelity as their most serious character flaw.
Can you see any current day democRAT suggesting that Americans should "ask not what your country can do for you"? Or to declare that America should "suppport any friend and oppose any foe"?
I could go on,but I think you get the picture.
I have read many of the writings and speeches of JFK.
By today's standards the man was no Liberal. If he ran for office today, I'd likely vote for him.
I was eleven years old and living in Oasis, CA where my dad was a shift foreman at the Lady Easter talc mine.
My dad was an ensign on the USS Phoenix sitting in Pearl Harbor. He said it took them 30 minutes to build up enough steam before they could get underway. They did not get hit. Dad said the Phoenix was the luckiest ship in the navy.
Yes, those who died young and unmarried seem to sort of evaporate. But they gave all. My father was in the Navy and at Iwo Jima and Leyte Gulf, he survived. His first cousin was killed at Anzio beach in '44, we never knew him, nor anything about him.
Getting a package ready now for relative in Iraq.
good read
I agree.In a book I read a few years back (can't recall the title or author) it was claimed that the Kennedy sons learned that stuff from their old man (who was a scumbag of the first order) and that,in fact,their old man used to try to scoop the sons' girlfriends for bed partners.
No,JFK was far from perfect but was,philospoically at least,a choir boy compared to today's democRAT leaders.
Dh's grandfather died there that day.
But my dad was a sophomore at The Citadel. He was sitting in the language lab, listening to a Spanish-language shortwave broadcast. When the announcer came on the radio and said that Pearl had been bombed, he wasn't sure he had heard it correctly - so he called the instructor over, and he listened, and told him that indeed he HAD heard it correctly.
Dad's mom had a friend on the draft board back home in Rome GA, who told her that his number would be coming up. So he didn't bother to go back to school for spring semester, figuring he would pay all that tuition and just get drafted and lose all his credits and his (or his mom's) money too. So he hung around home, got bored, and went down and enlisted! North Africa, Italy, Trieste, and the Greek elections . . . got shot at but everybody mostly missed, he was wounded very slightly but too embarassed to take a Purple Heart.
Yes, if the Dems would go back to that sort of Political course, instead of where they are now, trying to sink the ship to save their own politcal hides.
I had been conceived at that time, to be born on the birthday (June 12) of H.W. Bush. My Dad and his four brothers all served with four of them in hostle hell fire. I owe them so much. I hope the spelling is right, I am having trouble seeing, somebody left the water running.
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