The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Pearl Harbor - Dec. 7, 2002

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[MistyCA]

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[ST.LOUIE1]

I will drink an alka seltzer to that! :)

LOL

And an 'Amen!' - for good measure.

Seriously, though, the Foxhole will be a nice place to visit for those of us who haven't served.

We're all Americans, we all love our country, and we can all learn from our Vets who have served, and from those who are serving now.

God bless them all!

[MistyCA]

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[Taxman]

Good for you. I'd suggest you visit the Arizona Memorial first. Then go from there and visit the USS Missouri (BB-63). Awesome ships, both of them.

I'll check in from time to time.

[MistyCA]

Thanks, Louie. You will be welcomed here and I know you will join us in learning a lot. :)

[MistyCA]

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[Taxman]

I'd highly recommend that you do. Awesome -- and then go visit USS Missouri (BB-62). Stand where General McArthur took the Japanese surrender -- makes your hair stand on end.

When the New Jersey was departing Long Beach in 1983, I had to find a place to watch our departure out of sight of the folks on the pier (I was a civilian tech-rep, and had no uniform to wear, so I had to be out of sight). So, I chose the Flag Bridge.

Well, I was happily watching the festivities as we got under way when I noticed a brass plaque commemorating the fact that New Jersey had been Admiral Bull Halsey's flagship for a period of time during WW II! Talk about hair standing up on the back of my neck!

Lot of Naval History in those BBs! I was very fortunate to have spent several weeks in New Jersey and to experience the awesome history and power of those mighty ships.

I was a carrier aviator, and I believe in the power of Naval Aviation (and air power in general) as a force multiplier, but I am here to tell you that an "off-shore and visible-to-the-enemy Iowa class BB" has got to be an awesome "morale downer" to any group of bad guys about to get war made upon them.

I damn sure would not like to be on the receiving end of a 16" 54 calibre bombardment!

If I were SECDEF, obselete or not, we'd have four of them in commission!

[MistyCA]

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[ST.LOUIE1]

RE:119 also

Thanks, Misty, both are squirreled away in my Fave Places. : )

[MistyCA]

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[ST.LOUIE1]

You will be welcomed here and I know you will join us in learning a lot. :)

Well, I was learning a lot on another thread until a bomb hit the foxhole I was in. LOL

[MistyCA]

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This is a terrific Resource for Veteran's Benefits!

[MistyCA]

LMAO! You have to be in the right Foxhole! NEVER, NEVER, NEVER climb into bed with the enemy! :))))

[lindor]

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Please do remove my name from your ping list. All those graphics make my hard drive growl. Thanks.

[hattend]

BTTT.

Dec 7 is also my birthday. (1954)

[MistyCA]

[VOA]

AnitJen, thanks for the ping.

The unfortunate Oklahoma, an older ship with much less adequate protection
against underwater damage, was hit by up to nine torpedoes.

Here's my day-late (Dec. 8) two-cents:
Okies over about the age of 40 remember BB37 Oklahoma with a sense of pride.
The Japanese couldn't really sink the our namesake battleship.
And our battleship simply refused to be cut up to make razor blades, as it somehow slipped
free from it's tow ropes and went to the bottom of the Pacific while being towed
to the West Coast to be cut up for salvage.

Hey, when you are the neighbor of a nation-state like Texas, you do try
to look on the bright side of things!

[unequallawsuntoasavagerace]

Ok. The first Foxhole post I ignored after stewing about how this was similar to the SPAM I get via e-mail.
Now a second SPAM message.
How about getting me off your ping list.
And the B4Ranch ping list as well. Please.

[SAMWolf]

Thanks for hilighting Doris Miller's role in the Pearl Harbot attack.

[SAMWolf]

I stood on that spot when the Missouri visited Astoria, just before being sent to Pearl Harbor.

My kids and I had to stand in line for hours to get aboard and it was worth every minute of it.