[theDentist]

'Pearl Harbor's bombed.'

Bush was stunned. John Kennedy asked, "I thought her name was Pearl Bailey?"

[brothers4thID]

Thanks, that was a good, light, read.

[COBOL2Java]

It was my Mom's 21st birthday. Some way to remember it!

[Waverunner]

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.

[COBOL2Java]

This fellow looks a wee bit too young to be using the word "we" in the title...

[BigCinBigD]

I was not around yet. But my mothers brother was aboard the U.S.S. Arizona. I never got to meet my uncle.

[Amish]

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.

[i_dont_chat]

I don't remember. I was 2-1/2 months old at the time.

[Lazamataz]

Where we were when Pearl Harbor was attacked

Since I was not yet born -- nor, I think, was my mother -- I cannot truly say.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

"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?

[G.Mason]

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. ;)

[BluH2o]

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.

[al_c]

Where we were when Pearl Harbor was attacked

Where was I? Well, since my dad was only 1 1/2 years old, I was nowhere near Pearl so it wasn't my fault. But I'm sure the MSM could find some way to blame George HW for all of it.

In all seriousness though ... may God bless the souls of all of the men that died there on that fateful day.

[EmilyGeiger]

I wasn't born yet. I did have a great uncle who fought in WW2 and became a POW. He was held for a couple of months and my great grandmother received a telegram telling her he was MIA. Somehow he escaped and made it to American troops. Sent home. That is all I know. He would never talk about it. But his mom saved the telegram and she had his dogtags and picture.

[blackie]

I was eleven years old and living in Oasis, CA where my dad was a shift foreman at the Lady Easter talc mine.

[Pamlico]

My dad was an ensign on the USS Phoenix sitting in Pearl Harbor. He said it took them 30 minutes to build up enough steam before they could get underway. They did not get hit. Dad said the Phoenix was the luckiest ship in the navy.

[F14 Pilot]

good read

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

Dh's grandfather died there that day.

[AnAmericanMother]

I wasn't born til after the war.

But my dad was a sophomore at The Citadel. He was sitting in the language lab, listening to a Spanish-language shortwave broadcast. When the announcer came on the radio and said that Pearl had been bombed, he wasn't sure he had heard it correctly - so he called the instructor over, and he listened, and told him that indeed he HAD heard it correctly.

Dad's mom had a friend on the draft board back home in Rome GA, who told her that his number would be coming up. So he didn't bother to go back to school for spring semester, figuring he would pay all that tuition and just get drafted and lose all his credits and his (or his mom's) money too. So he hung around home, got bored, and went down and enlisted! North Africa, Italy, Trieste, and the Greek elections . . . got shot at but everybody mostly missed, he was wounded very slightly but too embarassed to take a Purple Heart.

[Wolverine]

For the researcher...

 

The Fall of the Philippines

http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/USA-P-PI/

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Pearl Harbor Investigation

http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/pha/congress/part_0.html

 

For those that are interested in how Pearl Harbor was investigated beginning in late 1945 and lasting till May 1946. 

 

A chronological chart of the investigations from the "Dorn Report".
Use a hyperlinked map of the Investigations to navigate or scroll down.
http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/pha/file_map.html

The "NINE INVESTIGATIONS" in chronological order:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/pha/invest.html

 

The Knox Investigation http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/pha/knox/knox_0.html
Dec. 9-14, 1941. 

The Roberts Commission http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/pha/roberts/roberts.html
Dec. 18-January-23, 1941
 
The Hart Investigation http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/pha/hart/hart-00.html
Feb. 12-June 15, 1944
 
The Army Pearl Harbor Board http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/pha/army/chap_0.html
Jul. 20-Oct. 20, 1944
 
The Navy Court of Inquiry http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/pha/navy/navy_0.html
Jul. 24-Oct. 19, 1944. 
 
The Clarke Investigation http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/pha/clarke/clarke_0.html
Aug. 4-Sep 20, 1944 
 
The Clausen Investigation
http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/pha/clausen/clausen.html
Jan. 24-Sep. 12, 1945 
 
The Hewitt Inquiry http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/pha/hewitt/hewitt-0.html
May 14-July 11, 1945
 
The Joint Congressional Committee
http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/pha/congress/part_0.html
Nov. 15, 1945-May 23, 1946 

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Suggested research path:

The Joint Congressional Committee
http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/pha/congress/part_0.html
Table of Contents gives a good over-view of the Report and the Report itself refers back to the previous reports.

The Pearl Harbor Investigation Listing
http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/pha/invest.html
including the Joint Congressional Committee report and the other eight official investigations into the attack.

The Listing of Additional Files
http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/pha/extra.html
Holds several items that are of interest but weren't included in all of the proceedings.

Naval Historical Center Images of Pearl Harbor
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/wwii-pac/pearlhbr/pearlhbr.htm

Photographic collections related to Pearl Harbor
http://ibiblio.org/pha/images/index.html

A Chronological Collection of Documents Relating to the U.S. Entry Into WWII
http://ibiblio.org/pha/timeline/  (Four parts)
    Magic intercepts listed in the Pearl Harbor Attack Hearings.
    Communications between Washington and the US embassy in Tokyo, other
    relevant US documents.
    International chronology, listing various documents from around the world
    Military document chronology, listing important military plans, studies and   communications.

Japanese Operational Monograph  No. 97  PEARL HARBOR OPERATIONS:

General Outline of Orders and Plans http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/myths/jm-097.html
was rewritten in English by the Japanese Research Division, Military History Section, Headquarters, Army Forces Far East and is based on the translation of the Japanese original.

Pearl Harbor Revisionism
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/3682/phrevisionism.html
First Order revisionism holds President Franklin D. Roosevelt personally responsible for the debacle at Pearl Harbor and regards him as having used the incident as a means to get the United States involved in the War and subsequently used the Hawaiian commanders as scapegoats to shift public attention away from the activities of the Administration.