Posted on 12/06/2016 5:34:25 PM PST by nickcarraway
George H.W. Bush: 75 years after Pearl Harbor, strength renewed(USA Today is only allowed to be linked to.)
So why post click bait for a stupid rag like McPaper?
It had to be an amazing time. They are truly our greatest generation of Americans.
HE DITCHED HIS CREW. Please go away, Bushes! Go away!
The first shots fired upon the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor were fired by Americans.
Murderer, drug dealer, globalist, traitor. The Greatest Generation.
GHWB is a fraudulent anti-Constitutionial sellout, and I loathe this shape-shifting chameleon.
I saw somewhere on the intertubes claiming that he craved the “company” of young black teens, back in the day.
Since I abhor GHWB, I’m inclined to believe the worst about him.
I once had a lot of respect for GHW Bush.
Then I learned what a snake he has been.
The reason we have 30 million illegal aliens in this country is largely due to him and his son.
F him. We’d be better off if the Sharks would have gotten him.
Nope....not close.
At least two greater.
“We’d be better off if the Sharks would have gotten him.”
Japanese troops stranded on the nearby islands were eating downed aviators.
“They are truly our greatest generation of Americans.”
Yes, they survived the Great Depression and won a world war. Truly great. That’s one side of the coin.
The other side sorta cancels out some of that glory as they fathered the generation that gave us the cultural revolution of the 60’s which right now is probably our current greatest threat. They let Roe v Wade slide. And speaking of fathering leftism, GW fathered one of the most RINO’ish establishment back stabbers there has been in my life time.
I sincerely believe we should pay respect to the Greatest Generation, but not to a Bush.
I sincerely believe we should pay respect to the Greatest Generation, but not to a Bush.
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I absolutely agree. I have no respect for the Bush family. Not a one of them.
“F him. We’d be better off if the Sharks would have gotten him.”
Ditto for Mc Cain! Unfortunately, hindsight is nearly always 20/20!
The China Marines were withdrawn from Shanghai in November 1941.
For four years the Marines were surrounded by and had close dealings with the occupying Japanese and were well regarded.
The China Marines were well aware of the rumors of a coming Japanese attacks and passed on the intel to Pearl Harbor.
My Dad was a Marine and the forward sentry on the USS Phoenix on the morning of December 7th, 1941.
Three days earlier he and the Marine Detachment onboard were ordered to fill all the ammunition boxes for the .50 caliber deck guns and padlock them. The Marine NCO’s were also issued sidearms and Thompson SMG’s. They knew what was coming.
My Dad saw the original recon flyover, shot the lock off the ammunition box and began firing the forward .50 cal. Browning. He said that he heard no other firing before he opened up.
The Phoenix was already making steam as they were to tow a target for gunnery practice that morning. The Japanese made their turns over the Phoenix allowing the Phoenix gunners to shoot down three aircraft. There were no Phoenix casualties and they made it out of the harbor safely.
We had plenty of warning.
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