Posted on 12/05/2011 7:23:19 PM PST by massmike
Definitely, the photo footage or Bush the elder showing his culpability exists.....Japanese just got their licks in early.
I remenber it like it was yesterday, I was listeneing to the radio when they announced it and I ran into the kitchen and told my mother that the japs just bombed Hawaii!!!
Reminds me of the old MAD magazine cartoon of 43 years ago.
FDR is bowing and apologizing to Hirohito for the damage to his pilot’s ears when American ships blew up in Pearl Harbor.
“Where were those Concentration Camps located?”
There was a couple of large ones in California.
>> Of course I remember when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor.
Oh, jeez. What dumbass said that?
President John Blutarsky
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7vtWB4owdE
(You’ve never seen “Animal House?”)
My uncle had joined the Navy days before Pearl Harbor. In an essay he wrote a few years ago he recalled six weeks of basic training crammed into one because they had to get manpower into the war.
His ship, the USS Colorado, sailed from Bremmerton, WAshington. “After about two days, I noticed the weather getting hotter and the sea was getting smoother and its color changing to a deeper blue. Some of the older sailors said it looked like we were headed to Hawaii ...”
When they reached Hawaii, “We steamed into a navy shipyard and saw the damage the Japanese had done. We picked up a harbor pilot and followed a motor launch. Every once in awhile the launch would stop and pull something into the launch. It was a sailor coming to the surface. We were seeing the results of war and our possible fate for the first time.”
“We sailed up the channel past destroyed buildings which were still smoking, past destroyed airplanes and then we came to battleship row. Past teh USS Maryland, USS Nevada, and other ships still smoking with large gaping holes. There was so much damage it is hard to describe ...” (by Giles Phelps, 1923-1998)
He was just 18 at the time and had dropped out of school to join the Navy. He had always dreamed of going to sea. I don’t think going to war was part of his dream, but like so many others, did his duty as best he could.
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