Pearl Harbor and Ford Island (comments on a pulled thread).

[UseYourHead]

Well then that's different!

[Hatteras]

World War II?!! Already? Who finally won World War I?

[wizr]

I learned a lot of history, language and music from the old cartoons.

[decimon]

First fireproof polar bears, and now this.

I don't want to get into the perfidy of polar bears but attacking Pearl Harbor from the Aleutians was how FDR framed the Japanese to get us into the war. George Bush Sr. was one of the pilots before he became a lizard and then President. Something like that.

[Hat-Trick]

So did he:

[skeeter]

Yesterday our local talk radio station did their annual 'lets hear from PH survivors' routine. What was different this year was most of the callers were women - wives & children of service members.

It brought home that there aren't too many PH soldiers & sailors around any more.

[IN Farm Girl]

I used to work the reference desk at a major US university's undergraduate library. One day, I had a guy come up and ask how to find information for a report he was doing on WWII. I suggested to him that WWII was a pretty broad topic and he might want to narrow it down to a specific area--say, Pearl Harbor--and pare it down further from there.

The response I got? "Who's she?" I kid you not.

[zook]

Absolutely. I learned the basics of WWII (e.g., who fought who) at the age of 5 by watching Popeye and Bugs Bunny. I dare say that there isn't a single kids cartoon today that incorporates contemporary events.

[Martins kid]

I used to live near Pearl Harbor and every year would sit on the shore of Pearl Harbor during the memorial service. Such a beautiful peaceful place for a war to begin unannounced with such terrible violence. It is true that if you dig down into the sand lining the harbor a foot or so you will still find the burnt oily layer deposited during the attack. Being there touched me deeply and I'll never forget it.