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Lamh Foistenach Abu! Evening Kathy, Hugs.
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Lamh Foistenach Abu! 
When a US Navy vessel arrives or departs from the military bases in Pearl Harbor, the crew of that ship lines up in dress uniform. They stand at attention at arm’s length on the outer edges of the deck, in salute to the soldiers, sailors, and civilians who died on December 7, 1941. It is a stirring sight, and participants often list it among the most memorable moments of their military career.
Even for spectators on shore, the salute triggers an incredible emotional connection, but especially between the servants of today and the servants of yesterday. It grants nobility to the work of today’s sailor, while giving dignity to the sacrifice of those from the past.
When Jesus instituted the Lord’s Supper (Matt. 26:26-29), it was surely with an eye toward creating this same kind of emotional bond. Our participation in the Lord’s Table honors His sacrifice while also granting us a connection to Him unlike any other act of remembrance.
Just as the Navy carefully prescribes the way it salutes the fallen, so too Scripture teaches us how to remember Jesus’ sacrifice (1 Cor. 11:26-28). These acts of reverence and thanksgiving serve to honor past action while giving purpose to present service.
Read: 1 Corinthians 11:23-34
Good Evening, Ladies!
~ Remembering Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941 ~
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I remember back in my Navy Days we sailed into Pearl Harbor. As we made our way to our mooring, we passed by the Arizona Memorial.
It was an honor to render honors as we passed by. I’ll never forget those two experiences.
I was at my aunt’s house for Sunday dinner in MA when we got the news and the adults were all talking about war.
My cousin and I,both 9 years old, were afraid that Christmas would be cancelled. Kids !!!!!!
My son’s in-laws were kids in Honolulu that day. It was quite frightening for them.
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Our Flag Flying Proudly One Nation Under God
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Lord, Please Bless Our Troops, They're fighting for our Freedom.
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God Bless Our Republic
I pledge allegiance to the Flag
of the United States of America,
and to the Republic, for which it stands;
one nation UNDER GOD,
indivisible,
with liberty and justice for all.
Prayers going up
“At a range of 230 miles north of Oahu, launching of the first wave of a two-wave attack.
Beginning at 0600 hours ....the first wave consisted of 183 fighters and torpedo bombers... which struck at the fleet in Pearl Harbor and the airfields in Hickam, Kaneohe and Ewa.
The second strike, launched at 0715 hours,... consisted of 167 aircraft, which again struck at the same targets.
At 0753 hours... the first wave consisting of.... 40 Nakajima B5N2 “Kate” torpedo bombers,... 51 Aichi D3A1 “Val” dive bombers,.... 50 high altitude bombers.... and 43 Zeros struck airfields and Pearl Harbor.
Within the next hour, the second wave arrived and continued the attack.”
Kathy,.... Thank you for this thread....
And a Prayer,
Lord ..may we always be grateful for our country and the many who layed down their life that we might remain a free nation......And as we remember this day may we also be mindful that catastrophe can happen suddenly....keep our nation alert Lord...and eyes to see and hear when the enemy of freedom seeks to destroy.
In Jesus name...Amen
Battleship Pennsylvania - Medium damage from bombs
Battleship Arizona - Sunk by bombs
Battleship Nevada - Heavy damage from bombs, beached to prevent sinking
Battleship Oklahoma - Sunk by torpedoes
Battleship Tennessee - Medium damage from bombs and fire from Arizona
Battleship California - Sunk by torpedoes, salvaged
Battleship Maryland - Minor damage from bombs
Battleship West Virginia - Sunk by torpedoes, salvaged
Heavy Cruiser New Orleans - Minor damage from near miss
Light Cruiser Raleigh - Heavy damage from torpedo
Light Cruiser Honolulu - Minor damage from near miss
Light Cruiser St. Louis - Minor damage from strafing
Light Cruiser Helena - Medium damage from torpedo
Destroyer Hull - Minor damage from near miss
Destroyer Aylwin - Minor damage from near miss
Destroyer Cummings - Minor damage from near miss
Destroyer Shaw - Heavy damage from bomb hit
Destroyer Cassin - Destroyed by bomb hit, salvaged
Destroyer Downes - Destroyed by bomb hit, salvaged
Destroyer Bagley - Minor damage from near miss
Destroyer Helm - Minor damage from near miss
Destroyer Henley - Minor damage from strafing
Minelayer Oglala - Sunk by ruptured hull plates (was docked alongside Helena when she was hit by the torpedo), salvaged
Destroyer Tender Dobbin - Minor damage from near miss
Seaplane Carrier Curtiss - Medium damage from bomb hits
Ammunition Ship Pyro - Minor damage from near miss
Repair Ship Vestal - Heavy damage from bomb hits and explosion of Arizona alongside
Repair Ship Rigel - Minor damage from near miss
Target Ship Utah - Sunk by torpedoes
Survey Ship Sumner - Minor damage from exploding AA gun
0342 hours..... The minesweeper Condor is on patrol less than two miles ) off the entrance to Pearl Harbor.... The officer of the deck sees something “about fifty yards ahead off the port bow.”.... He asks a sailor what he makes of the object..... “That’s a periscope, sir,” the sailor replies. “And there aren’t supposed to be any subs in the area.”
The Condor sends a blinker-light message to the destroyer Ward:...... “Sighted submerged submarine on westerly course, speed 9 knots.”
0610 hours.... Already in flight, Comdr. Mitsuo Fuchida, who will lead the Japanese air attack on Pearl Harbor, sees the Japanese aircraft carriers rocking on a choppy sea...... As the carriers pitch and roll, waves crash across on the flight decks. Crewmen cling to the aircraft to keep them from going over the side.
The carriers turn into the wind, and the first wave of planes—183 fighters, bombers, and torpedo planes—roar into the sky........ Pilots reconfirm their navigation by using a Honolulu radio station’s music as a guiding beam.
0645 hours..... The U.S. destroyer Ward, which had not been able to find the midget submarine reported by the minesweeper Condor,.... moves in for the kill..... The Ward’s captain, Lt. William W. Outerbridge, has been in command for only two days...... He orders men to commence firing. The first shot misses. The second strikes the submarine at the waterline.
The submarine heels over and appears “to slow and sink.” The Ward assures the sinking by dropping “a full pattern of depth charges.”
0653 hours ..... From the Ward to the 14th Naval Headquarters, at Pearl Harbor Naval Station:
“We have dropped depth charges upon sub operating in defensive sea area”.
Then, almost immediately, a second, more detailed message:
“We have attacked, fired upon, and dropped depth charges upon submarine operating in defensive sea area.”
The Ward’s captain believes that the message will show superiors that the destroyer had not just responded to a submarine sighting but actually had “shot at something.”
0702 hours .... The Army’s Opana Mobile Radar Station is one of six radar stations on Oahu.... Radar is a new defense tool in Hawaii; the system has been in operation for less than a month.
One of the two privates on duty looks at the radar oscilloscope and can’t believe his eyes..... He asks his buddy to take a look—and he confirms the sighting:.....
50 or more aircraft on a bearing for Oahu..... The privates call the Fort Shafter information center, the hub of the radar network.
0715 hours.... The Ward had sent out its message—that it had attacked an unidentified sub—in code...... At headquarters, code clerks decode the message, then routinely put it in... “paraphrase”.... so there will not be an exact paper copy that might aid an enemy code breaker.
The message gradually makes its way to the top:
Adm. Husband E. Kimmel, commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet...... Because there had been so many “false reports of submarines” recently,.....Kimmel decides to “wait for verification of the report.”
0720 hours..... An Army lieutenant who is in training at the radio-network operations center at Fort Shafter gets the Opana radar station report:
“the biggest sightings” the radar operator had ever seen.... By now the planes are about 70 miles (113 kilometers) away...... The lieutenant believes that the radar had picked up a flight of U.S. B-17 Flying Fortress bombers heading from California to Hawaii..... For security reasons, he cannot tell this to the radar operators. All he says is, ....“Well, don’t worry about it.”
0733 hours ..... U.S. code breakers, though stymied by Japanese naval codes, have cracked the Japanese diplomatic code..... From a Tokyo-to-Washington message, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Gen. George C. Marshall, Army Chief of Staff,.... learn that Japanese negotiators in Washington have been told to break off talks..... Believing this may mean war,... Marshall sends a warning to Lt. Gen. Walter C. Short, commander of U.S. Army forces in Hawaii.
Because atmospheric static blacks out communications with Hawaii, Marshall’s message goes via commercial telegraph.... (It will reach Short’s headquarters at 1145 hours. He will not see it until about 1500 hours.)
0740 hours.... Planes of the first wave take off from the Japanese carriers—49 high-altitude bombers, 51 dive-bombers, 40 torpedo planes, 43 fighters..... They fly through clouds, wondering if Pearl Harbor will be visible.
Then, as they near Oahu, the attack commander hears a Honolulu weather report: ...“clouds mostly over the mountains. Visibility good.” The clouds break. The fliers see “a long white line of coast”..—Oahu’s Kakuku Point.
0749 hours.... Air-attack commander Mitsuo Fuchida, looking down on Pearl Harbor, sees no aircraft carriers, which the Japanese hoped to destroy and thus thwart U.S. retaliation..... He orders his telegraph operator to tap out to, to, to: attack..... Then other taps: to ra, to ra, to ra:.... attack, surprise achieved.
Though not meant to have a double meaning, to ra is read by some Japanese pilots as tora—tiger...... And according to a Japanese saying,.... “A tiger goes out 1,000 ri [2,000 miles/3,218 kilometers] and returns without fail.”
0755 hours..... At the Command Center on Ford Island, Comdr. Logan C. Ramsey looks out a window to see a low-flying plane..... A reckless U.S. pilot, he thinks..... Then he sees... “something black fall out of that plane” and realizes it’s a bomb.
Ramsey runs to a radio room and orders the telegraph operators to send out an uncoded message to every ship and base:
AIR RAID ON PEARL HARBOR X THIS IS NOT DRILL!!!
A visitor looks at the aft steering wheel salvaged from the wreckage of the USS Oklahoma on display at The Oklahoma History Center in Oklahoma City, Monday December, 5, 2011. The 48 star flag flew on board the U.S.S. Oklahoma. Oklahoman Photo by Steve Gooch
May God bless the United States of America.
Thank you dear Kathy in Alaska and everyone.
God bless our fallen and our brave troops and God bless you all, everyone.
70 years ago. May God hold each hero dear.
Thank you dear Kathy in Alaska and everyone.
God bless our fallen and our brave troops and God bless you all, everyone.
70 years ago. May God hold each hero dear.
