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Where we were when Pearl Harbor was attacked
World Defense Review ^
| December 2, 2005
| W. Thomas Smith, Jr.
Posted on 12/02/2005 5:57:53 AM PST by Moonraker
On December 7, future U.S. President George H.W. Bush was a 17-year-old student and captain of the baseball team at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. "I remember it well," he says. "We had just left church and started to walk across campus when someone shouted out, 'Pearl Harbor's been bombed.'"
On his 18th birthday, the following June, Bush signed up to become a Naval aviator. He completed flight school and earned his commission a few days before his 19th birthday making him the youngest aviator in the Navy at that time.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: 1941; army; attack; buckley; bush; destroyer; division; dole; harbor; ii; navy; pearl; pearlharbor; seal; seals; tuskegee; war; world; wwii
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posted on
12/02/2005 5:57:54 AM PST
by
Moonraker
To: Moonraker
'Pearl Harbor's bombed.' Bush was stunned. John Kennedy asked, "I thought her name was Pearl Bailey?"
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posted on
12/02/2005 6:07:02 AM PST
by
theDentist
(The Dems have put all their eggs in one basket-case: Howard "Belltower" Dean.)
To: Moonraker
Thanks, that was a good, light, read.
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posted on
12/02/2005 6:08:12 AM PST
by
brothers4thID
(Do you stand with us, or are you going to just stand in the way?)
To: Moonraker
It was my Mom's 21st birthday. Some way to remember it!
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posted on
12/02/2005 6:10:49 AM PST
by
COBOL2Java
(The Katrina Media never gets anything right, so why should I believe them?)
To: Moonraker
Every time I read something like this, I think of a picture from my great aunt's photo album - it shows a small baby boy smiling at the camera. It reads cousin Roberts adopted son - killed in WW2 - nothing else is written on the picture, And all of the older relatives have passed away, He's just a nameless young man who gave his life for America. When my cousin was in Iraq, I made sure he got a big package every 2 weeks from home.
Support our troops.
To: Moonraker
This fellow looks a wee bit too young to be using the word "we" in the title...
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posted on
12/02/2005 6:12:56 AM PST
by
COBOL2Java
(The Katrina Media never gets anything right, so why should I believe them?)
To: Moonraker
I was not around yet. But my mothers brother was aboard the U.S.S. Arizona. I never got to meet my uncle.
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posted on
12/02/2005 6:13:22 AM PST
by
BigCinBigD
(Merry Christmas!)
To: COBOL2Java
My GRANDMOTHER was 15 years old!
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posted on
12/02/2005 6:13:36 AM PST
by
RockinRight
(It’s likely for a Conservative to be a Republican, but not always the other way around)
To: RockinRight
Just goes to show you, all age groups are welcome to FreeRepublic! :-)
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posted on
12/02/2005 6:15:27 AM PST
by
COBOL2Java
(The Katrina Media never gets anything right, so why should I believe them?)
To: theDentist
....John Kennedy asked, "I thought her name was Pearl Bailey?" Hey,C'mon...that's not fair.JFK(and his brother Joe,for that matter) served honorably in WWII,as did former President Bush and many others.
In fact,JFK was,IMO,the last prominent (influential) democRAT to be worthy of the respect of today's Republicans/ conservatives.
To: Moonraker
I am a generation away from these folk, but have known several who were on-site at the time.
A friend an former workmate was the flyweight boxing champion of Schoffield Barracks when the attack hit.
Another friend of the family was a young Army Air Corps wife living on base with her junior officer husband.
Another couple were first generation Japanese Americans living at home in Pearl City. The future wife was walking her younger sister home after church when the attack began. The future husband initially thought it was some kind of an exercise at first and watched the attack from the top of a hillside garage in Pearl City.
"The greatest generation".. sadly leaving us each day.
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posted on
12/02/2005 6:16:54 AM PST
by
Amish
To: Moonraker
I don't remember. I was 2-1/2 months old at the time.
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posted on
12/02/2005 6:17:00 AM PST
by
i_dont_chat
(Houston, TX)
To: i_dont_chat
My dad was drafted near the end of the war, but didn't see any combat.
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posted on
12/02/2005 6:18:07 AM PST
by
i_dont_chat
(Houston, TX)
To: Moonraker
Where we were when Pearl Harbor was attackedSince I was not yet born -- nor, I think, was my mother -- I cannot truly say.
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posted on
12/02/2005 6:18:08 AM PST
by
Lazamataz
(Proudly Posting Without Reading The Article Since 1999)
To: Moonraker
"We had just left church and started to walk across campus when someone shouted out, 'Pearl Harbor's been bombed.'" Considering the time difference between Hawaii and MA, does this statement strike anyone else as...odd?
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posted on
12/02/2005 6:18:34 AM PST
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(This is my tagline. There are many like it but this one is mine.)
To: Gay State Conservative
JFK was known for his pursuit of women of any age.
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posted on
12/02/2005 6:21:56 AM PST
by
theDentist
(The Dems have put all their eggs in one basket-case: Howard "Belltower" Dean.)
To: Moonraker
Don't forget ... if you fly the Stars & Bars ... to fly it at half mast on December 7th.
Help drive your local leftists further off the edge. ;)
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posted on
12/02/2005 6:24:59 AM PST
by
G.Mason
(You don't recycle the enemy Democrats, you bury them.)
To: zot; Hurtgen; Interesting Times
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
Why should it? Around 1:00 pm MA time.
He left Church. Probably hanging out with friends awhile afterwards then walked across campus.
That's about right.
To: Moonraker
News of the attack on Pearl Harbor left an indelible impression on the minds of those people old enough at the time to understand the implications. Just like 911 is to more recent generations. My parents (Canadians) remembered precisely were they were when they first heard the news on that fateful Sunday in December 1941.
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posted on
12/02/2005 6:30:55 AM PST
by
BluH2o
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