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

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[Kaafi]

Did you noticed the resemblance between Pearl Harbor and 9-11?

[E.G.C.]

Bump for the Freeper Foxhole.

[Rightly Biased]

If only this history lesson was taught in our goverment schools thanks SAM.
THANKS!! is too small a word for our WWII VETS !!!!
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[Fiddlstix]

Click the Pics J

[Slipjack]

REMOVE MY NAME FROM YOUR LIST NOW!

[Reagan is King]

Nice work SAM. Salute to all our vets today and thank you!

[YaYa123]

I hope everyone who finds this extraordinary thread, will also click on your screen name. Thanks for reminding me what this day invokes.

[Eagle9]

Thanks for the ping.

[stanz]

Thanks for pinging me.

[Paulie]

"...,twelve unarmed B-17C and B-17E...several of these were attacked. Though unable to fire back, only two B-17s were destroyed, both after landing, an early indication of the toughness of the "Flying Fortress" in combat."

Indeed! What a testimony to the mettle those guys were made of.

[Bogie]

VERY WELL DONE!

CHEERS!

[300winmag]

Did you noticed the resemblance between Pearl Harbor and 9-11?

Yes, but the differences are even more stark. Though deceitful, the Japanese attacked an armed enemy inside his strongest fortress. They violated their own code of honor because their leaders never did declare war on America before the attack, as they were led to believe would happen. Even though they fought bravely, they were eventually ground down to dust by the Americans.

The attack by the ragheads, however, makes Pearl Harbor look like a textbook example of chivalry. They slit the throats of unresisting stewardesses, and then flew airplanes full of civilians into buildings full of office workers. Today, they hide among their own civilians, and among us. That makes our job of exterminating them harder, but it will be done.

[Bob Z.]

>>Islamic society used to be far more advanced than Christian society, so when Bush praises it as having many great achievements, he is correct.<<<

You made a patently false statement, I was just correcting you. Islam was and is backward. Mohammed was no more advanced than a hick from the Appalachians. They contributed LITTLE if anything to science and society to this day that mattered or matters-period. Then comparing that to Christianity and the scientific accomplishments??

A negative report. They have taken from both with their insignificance.

Just try using your PC without electricity, your motors in every vehicle, fan and anything else motorized without magnetism.

Christianity launched modern science. Islam launched terrorism through juvenile strap-on bombs, rape, pillaging, torture, excellent lying and propoganda techniques, wars (95% of them currently involve Muslims), mass destruction and anti-American and Anti-Semitic sentiment.

Great contributions, no?

His, (the One who invented science-and scientists)
Bob Z.

[mafree]

Reporting from the foxhole bump!

[Kaafi]

I agree on the differences.

I meant the Americans fuckups (CIA ignored warning,And the officers in PH ignore the sub's and the planes)

[Budge]

A beautiful tribute. Thank you.

[Alberta's Child]

Thanks for the ping, AntiJen. Great idea, Sam. Pearl Harbor Day seems like an appropriate Opening Day, too!

[conservativemusician]

Great job!

[Uff Da]

Thank you for the two pings..........I really haven't seen or heard much about the Anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor........I guess it's too sensitive for certain people and, of course, the history revisionists have modified it almost into obscurity.

My brother was with the 4th Marine Division on Iwo Jima........I was 9 years old when Pearl Harbor was attacked and I can remember hearing the announcement coming over the radio..........

[Taxman]

Thanks for the great post, Sam.

I had the great honor and privilege to witness a memorable wreath laying ceremony abeam the Arizona Memorial in 1983 while embarked in USS New Jersey (BB-62).

I had, of course, been to the memorial on my first pass through Honolulu in 1966, but this occasion was sweet -- one Battleship crew honoring another crew, still serving their country. It was a very special moment.

Having been modernized and recommissioned in December, 1982, New Jersey was on a shakedown and "Show the Flag" cruise to WESTPAC, and I was aboard as a civilian tech rep.

The wreath laying ceremony, as we passed by the Arizona Memorial was simplicity in itself, but very poignant to this Reserve Naval Aviator observer, and the entire ship's crew, I expect. I was up in the "Crow's Nest," the gunfire spotting station, about the O-8 or O-9 level -- as high in the ship as one could get and saw and heard the entire ceremony.

You may recall that later in the year, New Jersey was hurriedly dispatched from Manilla Bay to Nicaragua and, a short while later, to Beruit.

I'd like to say that I was able to make the entire cruise, but, unfortunately, I was not able to get a recall to Active Duty. But, I sure made a hellofaneffort to get the recall!


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