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Posted on 12/06/2006 5:16:05 PM PST by bnelson44
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What a shame!
I know what you mean, although Fox News did a good job with coverage on Thursday. They covered a fair amount of the live commemoration ceremony at Pearl Harbor, and Brit Hume did a nice recap of the ceremony on his 6pm Special Report. (I think Shep Smith did the same at 7pm)
Also, Sean Hannity and Rush reminded listeners about the "day that will live in infamy" several times on Thursday...
Like a rocket right over his head...LMAO!
My birthday 20 years later (1961). I think that's why I spent 24 years in the Navy.
I assume from your post that you don't own a Japanese car.
I do not own a Japanese car, your assumption was correct.
I don't have Fox cable news. If I miss Sean Hannity,I guess I miss anything decent in the news. Not one other network news covered it. Disgraceful.
On the bright side, I can't really boggle my mind this morning too much and come up with a thought of another country I could move to that would be much better.....even Western Australia seems like she's bitten by her fair share of leftists. Might as well make do here in the Mesquites and prickly pear.
"On the bright side, I can't really boggle my mind this morning too much and come up with a thought of another country I could move to that would be much better.....even Western Australia seems like she's bitten by her fair share of leftists."
When the US falls - killed from within and pressed from without - where do we go?
There's no escape from the Alamo.
65 years later, his questions linger
(saw Japanese fleet before Pearl Harbor)
The Gazette | 12/06/06 | Ed Sealover
Posted on 12/07/2006 8:45:29 PM EST by loreldan
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My Dad arrived in PH via troop transport about December 10th. He said it was the biggest charlie foxtrot one could possibly imagine. He took us over for a visit at Christmas of '59. I was 12 at the time. We were driving around Hickam Field and were on a street with barracks on both sides. Being a smartass, clueless kid, I remarked "These buildings look like they have chicken pox." He stopped the car and asked us to step outside. He explained that at 7:55 on a Sunday morning, Japanese fighter pilots flew over the field and machine gunned the men as they slept. The Air Force patched the holes but refused to paint over the holes. As of 1959, they were in no mood to forget. It made a lasting impression on me.
I'm tempted to book another trip to the area, now that the USS Missouri is on site.
"I hope you've been back...the Pearl Harbor Memorial is fabulous"
I'm not sure "fabulous" fits here. Somber, yes. Inspiring and thought-provoking, yes. But not "fabulous". Not for an American.
Ern, I have made several visits to the USS Pampanito in San Francisco, a sub of similar vintage. Those diesel boats never cease to amaze me. I went through her once with a diesel boat deck officer. I was amazed when we went through the steering and engine rooms, he rattled off the name of every valve and every piece of machinery. I sailed as a snipe aboard a surface ship in RVN, and I can assure you that my deck officers could not do the same thing.
Most interesting recruiting posters, thanks for posting.
Wife and I visited Pearl Harbor in 2000. I was struck, when stepping aboard Arizona by how every male removed his hat, even a couple of knuckle draggers with the backward baseball caps without having to be told.
We toured Missouri. All during the tour there was a guy in the group with heavy shop floor black work shoes who kept extolling the virtues of democraps. The tour guide, at one point, was giving the history of the commissionings, decommissionings, and recommissionings of the ship. He stated that the ship was laid down during F. Roosevelt and commissioned during Truman. Shop floor shoes loudly says, "democrats, good ones." Guide goes on--recommissioned during Reagan. To which RushLake says, "Republican, Great One." Shop floor shoes shoulders kinda rose up and nothing more was said about democraps.
"We have gone from Norman Rockwell to Robert Mapplethorpe in one generation."
What a difference public education/left-wing indoctrination makes!
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