‘A date which will live in infamy’

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | December 7, 2016 | Meg Waite Clayton

[artichokegrower]

Just before 8 a.m. Hawaii time 75 years ago Wednesday, 353 Japanese planes bombed 19 U.S. Navy ships. Half of the 2,403 who died in the nearly two-hour attack were on the Arizona, which had helped escort President Woodrow Wilson to the Paris Peace Conference after the “war to end all wars.” The battleship remains sunken in Pearl Harbor, with its crew aboard.

[artichokegrower]

Under Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066, America incarcerated 127,000 people simply for being of Japanese descent.

Which was done by a Democrat president.

[C19fan]

Encouraged by the future lion of the Left Earl Warren who was GOP governor of CA at the time.

[Alberta's Child]

Half of the 2,403 who died in the nearly two-hour attack were on the Arizona, which had helped escort President Woodrow Wilson to the Paris Peace Conference after the "war to end all wars."

I never knew this until now. God sure has an interesting sense of humor sometimes, doesn't he?

[BenLurkin]

Saw the headline. Thought of this day.....

[doug from upland]

Hillary believes the date which will live in infamy is Nov. 8, 2016. For some of us, it would be Oct. 26, 1947.

[del4hope]

That day changed everything.

I am keeping a list of everything we never had to think about or do before the Clintons. List keeps growing. Maybe one day I will do a thread on it.

[stocksthatgoup]

Jan 16, 1885 the founding of the SAN Francisco Chronicle. A day that will go down in infamy. /s

[mass55th]

Great photo on the Bing Search page today:

Pearl Harbor Remembrance in 1942, Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii

Photo description accompanying it:

This photo was taken one year after the 1941 Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor that killed about 2,400 Americans. With the volcanic cone of Diamond Head in the background, Navy personnel place leis on the gravestones of their comrades who died during the attack on the Naval Air Station at Kaneohe Bay, which occurred just minutes before the Pearl Harbor attacks. Twenty were killed in the Kaneohe Bay attack, including two civilians. The enlisted personnel were buried at this beach near the community of Kaneohe. The Naval air station has since been converted to Marine Corps Base Hawaii. The Pearl Harbor memorial, called the USS Arizona Memorial, is west of here, at the site of the final resting place of the 1,177 sailors and Marines who died in the attacks while aboard the USS Arizona."

[dfwgator]

Radio Broadcasts from December 1941.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTICdKs99GM&t=16599s

[EagleUSA]

Amazing the SF Chron even mentioned Pearl Harbor. Commie bastards.

[stylin19a]

Trump hit piece.

[artichokegrower]

Do you think?:

“Our president-elect’s chief strategist is a man whose business is built on appealing to white nationalists — many of whom offer Nazi salutes to a president-elect who has begun a “thank you tour” seemingly meant to encourage them.”

[doorgunner69]

Farging idiots should not be allowed to caption photos they know nothing about. That is NOT Diamond Head. It is the crater at the tip of Kaneohe on the opposite side of the island..

[j.havenfarm]

On the ground at the 75 commemoration. Magnificent ceremony. On our way to the Oklahoma memorial ceremony

[mass55th]

Don’t know who’s to blame for the error. The photo is © Bettmann/Getty Images.

[j.havenfarm]

On the ground at the 75 commemoration. Magnificent ceremony. On our way to the Oklahoma memorial ceremony

[CyberAnt]

I guess some on the CURRENT LEFT would have preferred to see MILLIONS of American military killed in a land assault on Japan.

That was actually the choice Truman had to make.

[21twelve]

And you can tell the left that some estimates go as high as ten million Japs would have died, seeing as how the civilians were training with pitch forks, ready to die to protect their homeland.

I think the “millions” of American’s killed is high too. But probably for the killed and injured (”casualties”) that is a reasonable number.

[Mears]

My DIL’s mother was at Sunday mass in Kaneohe when the bombs started——she was about 12,her older sister was so frightened that she fainted.

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[mass55th]

Thanks for sharing. One can only imagine the horrors of that day. I wasn't born until 1947.

My brother was stationed at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii before heading over to Vietnam in 1966.

The only other information I've dealt with on Hawaii is research I did for my thesis. I studied the 55th Massachusetts, the 2nd black regiment out of that State during the Civil War. The Lt. Colonel, later Colonel and Brevet Brigadier General was Alfred S. Hartwell. After the war he completed his law degree at Harvard, and left the U.S. for a job in Hawaii. He was appointed as a justice by King Kamehameha V to the Supreme Court of the Kingdom of Hawaii. He married the daughter of a missionary from New England. They had 8 children. He served as Attorney General for King Kalākaua, He served as editor of the Hawaiian Gazette, a member of the Board of Trustees for the Planters' Labor and Supply Company, and president of the Pacific Cable Company. He also had his own law firm.

He supported the idea that the United States should acquire a permanent lease with Hawaii for a naval base at Pearl Harbor. According to a letter written by his son, he invested money in a consortium to dredge Pearl Harbor to improve its use as a naval base. Not long before he died, he was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Hawaii. By that time, Hawaii had been annexed to the U.S.