Ive had my Flag at 1/2 mast all day

[olevetonahill]

Have you?

[LiveLaughLove]

Who died?

[olevetonahill]

Who died?


A day that will live in Infamy (As long as folks dont ****in forget)
http://ww3.hdnux.com/photos/16/55/62/3857562/0/385x218.jpg

http://www.chron.com/news/world/article/Pearl-Harbor-dead-remembered-on-71st-anniversary-4098561.php

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Who died?
Really?

[olevetonahill]

Really?

LLL is a Good dude, Its just shows me that all this Rah Rah WE support our troops is mostly bullshat.

Ill bet most folk barely even thot about what this day is if they did at all.

[hawaii 5-0]

It's remembered very well where I live.

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[diverdog]

LLL is a Good dude, Its just shows me that all this Rah Rah WE support our troops is mostly bullshat.

Ill bet most folk barely even thot about what this day is if they did at all.

i watched MacArthur with Gregory Peck last night. I still thank god that we were blessed with so many great men during that war. God was on our side.

[olevetonahill]

It's remembered very well where I live.

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Go figure, wonder why that is?

[diverdog]

Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won....


As I look back upon the long, tortuous trail from those grim days of Bataan and Corregidor, when an entire world lived in fear, when democracy was on the defensive everywhere, when modern civilization trembled in the balance, I thank a merciful God that he has given us the faith, the courage and the power from which to mold victory. We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war.


A new era is upon us. Even the lesson of victory itself brings with it profound concern, both for our future security and the survival of civilization. The destructiveness of the war potential, through progressive advances in scientific discovery, has in fact now reached a point which revises the traditional concepts of war.


Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.... Military alliances, balances of power, leagues of nations, all in turn failed, leaving the only path to be by way of the crucible of war. We have had our last chance. If we do not now devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door. The problem basically is theological and involves a spiritual recrudescence and improvement of human character that will synchronize with our almost matchless advances in science, art, literature and all material and cultural development of the past two thousand years. It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh.

[hawaii 5-0]

Most people still greive for the attack.

It wasn't just Pearl that got hit. They struck several military installations.

Some Japanese still remember it as the day they kicked azz.

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[LiveLaughLove]

I feel bad now. Didn't realize the date. It's also my deceased grandparents wedding anniversary. Or was.

They borrowed the money for the marriage license and then spent their honeymoon picking pecans to pay the guy back they borrowed the money from.

And we think we have it bad.

They were married in '37 so this would be their 75th anniversary. Miss you Pop and Granny.

[diverdog]

Most people still greive for the attack.

It wasn't just Pearl that got hit. They struck several military installations.

Some Japanese still remember it as the day they kicked azz.

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Sad part is we are still vulnerable to the same kind of attack from China.

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Most people still greive for the attack.

It wasn't just Pearl that got hit. They struck several military installations.

Some Japanese still remember it as the day they kicked azz.

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Those Japanese should remember it as Yamamoto put it, "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."


Yamamoto was right.

[olevetonahill]

Sad part is we are still vulnerable to the same kind of attack from China.

That scares the hell out of me
While every one here is screaming to cut the Military , China is pouring Billions into theirs . That South China Sea deal with the Spratley Islands is gonna blow up big time before long

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That scares the hell out of me
While every one here is screaming to cut the Military , China is pouring Billions into theirs . That South China Sea deal with the Spratley Islands is gonna blow up big time before long
We don't need the military until we need the military.

[olevetonahill]

We don't need the military until we need the military.

Yea strip it down like we did after WW1 then let it take 2 er 3 years to try to catch back up, In the meantime we lose troops cause they aint got the equipment they need

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Yea strip it down like we did after WW1 then let it take 2 er 3 years to try to catch back up, In the meantime we lose troops cause they aint got the equipment they need
Cutting off your nose to spite your face. We need to cut costs, but if we do that without considering the long term implications we are looking at exactly that type of scenario.

[rock on sooner]

Have you?

Yes Sir!

[olevetonahill]

Yes Sir!

Salute

[kevpks]

I don't have a flag on a pole at my house (just the kind you hang on the front of the garage). However, the college where I work had them at 1/2 mast. It's a day worthy of more attention than it received this year.

[olevetonahill]

I don't have a flag on a pole at my house (just the kind you hang on the front of the garage). However, the college where I work had them at 1/2 mast. It's a day worthy of more attention than it received this year.

So true, I watched to see and it sure as hell didnt get any here or very little in the News

[rock on sooner]

Salute

I did...when I put Lady Freedom out in the morning and
when I brought her in last night.

[hawaii 5-0]

So true, I watched to see and it sure as hell didnt get any here or very little in the News


It was on the front page here.

Just sayin'.

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[olevetonahill]

I did...when I put Lady Freedom out in the morning and
when I brought her in last night.

Good Jorb

H 2-0
Most of us never see that part of the forum
Oh you was talkin about yer Paper .. Ok Im sure Hawaii would Pay tention

[rock on sooner]

So true, I watched to see and it sure as hell didnt get any here or very little in the News

Local paper ..Des Moines Register...had a big spread with an
interview of a 94 year old survivor. He was aboard the USS
Nevada..battlewagon..able to get up steam to head out to sea
but at least 10 Jap bombers crippled her enough to force the
captain to run her aground to prevent being sunk in the channel
and clogging things up. The Nevada was moored aft the Arizona
and the Navy yeoman watched as her magazine exploded, really
hurting the Nevada, too. Reports were that the Nevada shot down
at least three planes before she went aground.

The Register does a good job every year finding and interviewing
Pearl Harbor survivors, but, they noted this year that it is getting
harder and harder to find them.

[rock on sooner]

i watched MacArthur with Gregory Peck last night. I still thank god that we were blessed with so many great men during that war. God was on our side.

I watched From Here to Eternity yesterday afternoon. End of the
movie had a lot actual newsreel stuff of the attack. Very sobering
that our military had so much of the fleet in one location, considering
how loud the war drums were in Washington, with all the back and
forth with the Japanese diplomats and our war department. That,
combined with all the "missed signals" of two man subs, delayed
plane watcher communications and slow moving decoded Japanese
intercepts makes later botched intell seem insignificant.

[soonercruiser]

Guilty!
Listen to a lot of shows about it all day long.

I should get the flag out on the pole more often!
(Maybe when I'm retired.)
:confusion:

[BigTip]

My dad died on a Dec 7th.
My wife's dad died on a June 6th.
Weird.

The library near my house had the flags at half mast on Saturday. It confused me.

[jk the sooner fan]

LLL is a Good dude, Its just shows me that all this Rah Rah WE support our troops is mostly bullshat.

Ill bet most folk barely even thot about what this day is if they did at all.

oh i think more people remember than you want to believe.....

[olevetonahill]

oh i think more people remember than you want to believe.....

As evidenced by your PROMPT reply :eagerness: