Posted on 12/07/2012 4:45:32 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii More than 2,000 people are expected at Pearl Harbor Friday to mark the 71st anniversary of the Japanese attack that killed thousands of people and launched the United States into World War II.
Ceremonies get under way with a moment of silence at 7:55 a.m., the exact time the bombing began in 1941.
The crew of a Navy guided-missile destroyer will stand on deck while the ship passes the USS Arizona, a battleship that still lies in the harbor where it sank decades ago.
Hawaii Air National Guard aircraft will fly overhead in missing man formation.
The Navy and National Park Service are hosting the ceremonies, which are being held in remembrance of the 2,390 service members and 49 civilians killed in the attack.
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Those were the days when the POTUS and Congress
protected Americans.
Today, not so much.
Prayers for all who were there, seventy one years ago, and who will be there on this Day of Remembrance.
Dad was there, at Hickham,he made it to the 50th Aniversary and punched out soon after.I think he hung on for that ceremony.
I have this book stashed away.
Dad was there, at Hickham,he made it to the 50th Aniversary and punched out soon after.I think he hung on for that ceremony.
I have this book stashed away.
Woops forgot the link 1st time
http://ibiblio.org/hyperwar/AAF/7Dec41/7Dec41-5.html
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Link below for table of contents of the book if any interest you can view the entire book.
Me pappy is quoted in there.
http://ibiblio.org/hyperwar/AAF/7Dec41/index.html#contents
My dad was there as well.
We lost him in January of 2007, but I was thinking about him this morning.
Only heard him tell the story twice. He was on deck on the Solace through the whole attack. Saw the Arizona and the West Virginia go down.
When it was over his ship retrieved the living and the dead from the waters of the harbor. In his retelling, he never talked about running out of space for the dead in the morgue and having to stack bodies up in the hallways.
I guess some thing are left better not remembered.
some thing are left better not remembered...
Unforgetable & unspeakable. How our warriors go on with such horrendous memories is beyond my comprehension.
May their reward in heaven be great.
yea its kinda of amazing when i think that just 4 or so years later my dad was a telephone installer in Ct and him and Maw(she was a sarge & taught teletype and code during the war) had just moved into their new home.She was an operator.
These folks sure kept a lot inside and you never heard of PTSD although maybe thats why I got the ass woop’ens I did.Who knows dont know dont care
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